Randy
Randy was given to 198 boys in 2025, #1,089 among boys’ names; 334,472 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 261,000 Americans named Randy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 48 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Randy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Randy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Randy is “a diminutive of the male given names Randall and Randolph, used as a male given name in the US.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Miranda.”
/ˈɹændi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Randy?
#1,089 among boys’ names, 2025
Randy fell from #569 in 2015 to #1,089 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.26 to 0.12 per 1,000.
16,740 babies in 1956, the peak
Randy peaked in 1956, when 16,740 babies were given it (16,547 boys, #28 among boys’ names). The 198 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,089 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 220 | #1,017 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 236 | #957 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 254 | #912 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 250 | #917 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 265 | #859 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 349 | #709 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 372 | #674 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 384 | #664 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 427 | #628 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 493 | #569 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 548 | #510 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 641 | #448 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 696 | #413 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 841 | #356 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 883 | #347 | 0.46 |
| 2009 | 996 | #321 | 0.50 |
| 2008 | 1,102 | #302 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 1,004 | #319 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 1,052 | #310 | 0.51 |
| 2005 | 1,082 | #306 | 0.54 |
| 2004 | 977 | #316 | 0.49 |
| 2003 | 936 | #317 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 1,017 | #294 | 0.52 |
| 2001 | 1,054 | #285 | 0.54 |
| 2000 | 1,136 | #278 | 0.58 |
| 1999 | 1,139 | #263 | 0.59 |
| 1998 | 1,276 | #244 | 0.67 |
| 1997 | 1,362 | #226 | 0.72 |
| 1996 | 1,509 | #206 | 0.80 |
| 1995 | 1,509 | #202 | 0.79 |
| 1994 | 1,644 | #186 | 0.85 |
| 1993 | 1,701 | #188 | 0.87 |
| 1992 | 2,008 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 2,160 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 2,477 | #131 | 1.2 |
| 1989 | 2,604 | #127 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 2,716 | #113 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,786 | #105 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 2,728 | #103 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 2,881 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 1984 | 2,909 | #100 | 1.6 |
| 1983 | 2,926 | #96 | 1.6 |
| 1982 | 3,229 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 1981 | 3,343 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 1980 | 3,390 | #87 | 1.9 |
| 1979 | 3,416 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 3,220 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 1977 | 3,397 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1976 | 3,320 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1975 | 3,385 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 1974 | 3,342 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1973 | 3,345 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1972 | 3,739 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 1971 | 4,345 | #67 | 2.5 |
| 1970 | 5,036 | #59 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5,265 | #55 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5,709 | #54 | 3.3 |
| 1967 | 6,799 | #49 | 3.9 |
| 1966 | 7,758 | #45 | 4.3 |
| 1965 | 8,861 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10,302 | #38 | 5.2 |
| 1963 | 10,535 | #37 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 11,840 | #35 | 5.7 |
| 1961 | 12,603 | #33 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 14,206 | #32 | 6.7 |
| 1959 | 15,042 | #31 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 15,188 | #32 | 7.2 |
| 1957 | 16,464 | #31 | 7.6 |
| 1956 | 16,547 | #28 | 7.8 |
| 1955 | 14,958 | #30 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 12,638 | #33 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 10,666 | #35 | 5.4 |
| 1952 | 8,646 | #41 | 4.4 |
| 1951 | 6,034 | #56 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 4,354 | #80 | 2.4 |
| 1949 | 3,623 | #92 | 2.0 |
| 1948 | 3,141 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1947 | 2,501 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1946 | 1,637 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 1,107 | #162 | 0.82 |
| 1944 | 805 | #191 | 0.59 |
| 1943 | 584 | #242 | 0.41 |
| 1942 | 379 | #316 | 0.27 |
| 1941 | 207 | #409 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 181 | #433 | 0.16 |
| 1939 | 137 | #492 | 0.12 |
| 1938 | 101 | #584 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 80 | #667 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 59 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 48 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,168 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,433 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,630 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,373 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Randy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 334,472 Americans recorded as Randy, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 198 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 Randy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Randy, and how old are they?
261,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 334,472 Americans ever recorded as Randy. The median Randy alive today is 62 years old; half are between 48 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 250,619 people named Randy (3,732 women and girls, 246,887 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279,767 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 1,480 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 136,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,640 |
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 Randy born?
The states with the most babies named Randy are California, Texas and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30,642 | #1,108 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 23,795 | #909 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 17,326 | #1,094 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 16,161 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 16,114 | #1,534 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 15,390 | #1,074 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 15,127 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 12,698 | #1,245 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 9,943 | #1,192 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 9,899 | #1,047 | 1.1× |
Where Randy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Randy is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1915 it was given 1.7 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 Randy 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 335,088 babies since 1880, Randy is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 198 of their 198 babies (100%), again the 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 Randy
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 Randy and names like it
- Compare Randy and RandeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRandy peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Randy since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Randy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Randy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.