Randal
About 29,324 American babies have been named Randal since 1909, most of them around 1958. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 23,000 Randals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Randal boys named Randal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,324
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 189th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 132 / 29,192
How old the living Randals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,324 babies given the name since 1909, about 23,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 9,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Variant of Randall.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Randals
- Randal Cremer (1828–1908)English politician
- Randal Kolo Muani (born 1998)French footballer
- Randal Kleiser (born 1946)Film director, screenwriter
- Randal Willars (born 2002)Mexican diver
People named Randal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Randal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Randal is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.7×), Iowa (2.3×), Wisconsin (2.3×), Nebraska (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Randal peaked:
Randal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Randal | 20 | 5,913th |
| Ireland boys | Randal | 4 | 229th |
| England and Wales boys | Randal | 3 | 3,036th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Randal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.