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Randall vs Randee

American parents have registered 199,745 Randalls since 1880, against 3,012 Randees. Randall is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randall against Randee, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randall Randee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Randall has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Randall had 831 and Randee had 47.

Side by side

  Randall Randee
Total US births 199,7453,012
Most in one year 7,20081
Babies in 2025 117under 5
Estimated living today 151,0002,700
Median age today 6147
Peak year 19601951
Best rank 59th boys1,078th girls
Rank in 2025 1,499thunranked
First recorded 18801942
Girls / boys 1,153 / 198,5922,833 / 179

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Randalls alive today are over 61; half the Randees are over 47. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Randall and Randee.