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Randee vs Randolph

American parents have registered 49,536 Randolphs since 1880, against 3,012 Randees. Randolph is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randee against Randolph, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randee Randolph

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

Randolph 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 Randee had 47 and Randolph had 127.

Side by side

  Randee Randolph
Total US births 3,01249,536
Most in one year 811,817
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 2,70030,000
Median age today 4765
Peak year 19511952
Best rank 1,078th girls154th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 19421880
Girls / boys 2,833 / 179112 / 49,424

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 Randolphs alive today are over 65; half the Randees are over 47. That is 18 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 Randolph.