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Randee vs Randi

American parents have registered 30,799 Randis since 1880, against 3,012 Randees. Randi is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randee against Randi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randee Randi

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

Randi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1931 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1945, when Randee had 30 and Randi had 35.

Side by side

  Randee Randi
Total US births 3,01230,799
Most in one year 811,109
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 2,70029,000
Median age today 4741
Peak year 19511982
Best rank 1,078th girls235th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 19421931
Girls / boys 2,833 / 17929,663 / 1,136

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 Randees alive today are over 47; half the Randis are over 41. That is 6 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: Randee and Randi.