Randell
Randell was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,093 among boys’ names; 10,159 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,580 Americans named Randell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 42 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Randell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Randell?
#7,093 among boys’ names, 2025
Randell fell from #5,011 in 2015 to #7,093 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 7.0 per million.
321 babies in 1960, the peak
Randell peaked in 1960, when 321 boys were given it, #451 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,093 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,178 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,433 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,746 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,263 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,907 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,031 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,023 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,303 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,729 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,011 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,280 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,608 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,882 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,960 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,331 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,298 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,347 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,830 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,586 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,665 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,413 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,826 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,221 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 62 | #1,591 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,304 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,141 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,123 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,051 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 126 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 124 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 110 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 118 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 108 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 112 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 104 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 130 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 115 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 105 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 93 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 99 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 94 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 105 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 106 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 115 | #750 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 105 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 152 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 163 | #638 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 168 | #605 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 171 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 193 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 227 | #505 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 220 | #516 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 254 | #495 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 268 | #489 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 286 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 306 | #462 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 321 | #451 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 294 | #466 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 304 | #450 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 288 | #455 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 261 | #466 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 234 | #478 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 231 | #476 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 197 | #497 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 235 | #460 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 206 | #472 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 201 | #472 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 200 | #464 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 125 | #609 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 145 | #563 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 109 | #617 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 83 | #663 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 83 | #686 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 69 | #796 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 63 | #819 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 75 | #718 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 58 | #827 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 52 | #856 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,145 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,088 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,440 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,902 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,125 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Randell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,159 Americans recorded as Randell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Randell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Randell, and how old are they?
7,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 10,159 Americans ever recorded as Randell. The median Randell alive today is 59 years old; half are between 42 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 6,876 people named Randell (167 women and girls, 6,709 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 202 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,070 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 554 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 208 |
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 Randell born?
The states with the most babies named Randell are Texas, California and Kentucky, with 34% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 830 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 665 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 630 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Tennessee | 421 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 379 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 292 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 273 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 270 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 263 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 221 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Randell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Randell is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1912 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Randell 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, Randell is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 147 babies (8.2%), again the third most given.
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 Randell
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 Randell and names like it
- Compare Randell and RandallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRandell peaked in 1960.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Randell since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Randell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Randell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.