Randel
Randel was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 3,676 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,630 Americans named Randel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 45 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Randel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Randel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,701, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1957, the peak
Randel peaked in 1957, when 128 boys were given it, #675 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,701 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,982 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,471 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,789 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,727 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,608 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,422 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,856 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,460 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,579 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #12,216 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,463 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,802 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,995 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,019 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,167 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,643 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,338 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,821 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,704 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,968 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,424 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,446 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,402 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,560 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,920 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,973 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,379 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,196 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,941 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,936 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,925 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,905 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,498 | 24.3 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,219 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,623 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,499 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,253 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,719 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,589 | 21.5 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,055 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,633 | 20.7 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,596 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,446 | 24.3 |
| 1974 | 38 | #1,404 | 24.2 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,425 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,134 | 32.1 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,195 | 27.1 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,059 | 32.3 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,025 | 31.9 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,179 | 24.2 |
| 1967 | 62 | #923 | 35.6 |
| 1966 | 76 | #839 | 42.6 |
| 1965 | 75 | #852 | 40.3 |
| 1964 | 68 | #925 | 34.1 |
| 1963 | 83 | #836 | 40.9 |
| 1962 | 112 | #726 | 54.1 |
| 1961 | 116 | #713 | 54.6 |
| 1960 | 122 | #710 | 57.2 |
| 1959 | 110 | #733 | 51.5 |
| 1958 | 128 | #671 | 60.3 |
| 1957 | 128 | #675 | 59.3 |
| 1956 | 113 | #697 | 53.4 |
| 1955 | 111 | #698 | 53.9 |
| 1954 | 111 | #686 | 54.4 |
| 1953 | 116 | #659 | 58.8 |
| 1952 | 97 | #715 | 49.9 |
| 1951 | 106 | #679 | 56.3 |
| 1950 | 84 | #752 | 46.9 |
| 1949 | 68 | #828 | 38.3 |
| 1948 | 60 | #884 | 34.2 |
| 1947 | 57 | #932 | 31.2 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,041 | 27.1 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,261 | 20.8 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,231 | 22.0 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,749 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,354 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,248 | 23.6 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,286 | 24.2 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,481 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,800 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,738 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,630 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,107 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,707 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,075 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,688 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,606 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,961 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,187 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,047 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,938 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,400 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,334 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,779 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,398 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,211 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,832 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,158 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,663 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,448 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,010 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,183 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Randel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Randel has been given almost only to boys: 25 girls in 103 years of records.
Girls and boys named Randel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Randel, and how old are they?
2,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 3,676 Americans ever recorded as Randel. The median Randel alive today is 62 years old; half are between 45 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 2,847 people named Randel (60 women and girls, 2,787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 77 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 652 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 447 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 183 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Randel born?
The states with the most babies named Randel are California, Texas and Kentucky, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 259 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 247 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 95 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 86 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 77 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 56 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Randel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 243,595 babies since 1880, Randel is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 147 babies recorded by SSA was a Randel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Randel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Randel and names like it
- Compare Randel and RandallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRandel peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Randel since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Randel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Randel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.