Randy
Randy reached its high-water mark in 1956 at number 28, and has been recorded 334,472 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,084th. About 265,000 Randys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Randy boys named Randy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 334,472
- Estimated living today
- 265,000
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 28th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,084th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 5,004 / 329,468
How old the living Randys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 334,472 babies given the name since 1915, about 265,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 9,100 of them are children and 104,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 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.
Notable Randys
- Randy Schekman (born 1948)Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
- Randy Orton (born 1980)American professional wrestler
- Randy Newman (born 1943)American singer-songwriter and pianist
- Randy Pausch (1960–2008)American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
- Randy Quaid (born 1950)American actor
- Randy Savage (1952–2011)American professional wrestler
- Randy Rhoads (1956–1982)American guitarist
- Randy Couture (born 1963)American mixed martial artist
People named Randy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Randy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Randy is most concentrated in Iowa (2.0×), South Dakota (1.8×), North Dakota (1.7×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Randy peaked:
Randy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Randy | 1,840 | 381st |
| Belgium boys | Randy | 223 | 345th |
| England and Wales boys | Randy | 78 | 2,276th |
| France girls | Randy | 5 | 7,262nd |
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.
Randy: rank by region
In 2013, Randy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Randy | 474 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Randy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Randy | 2,430 | 2,810 |
| the Netherlands girls | Randy | 104 | 143 |
| Finland boys | Randy | 15 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Randy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 368 men called Randy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Randy | 20 | 0.038 | 2,040 |
| Madrid | Randy | 114 | 0.033 | 1,521 |
| Barcelona | Randy | 80 | 0.027 | 1,820 |
| Palmas, Las | Randy | 12 | 0.021 | 3,279 |
| Balears, Illes | Randy | 10 | 0.016 | 3,165 |
| Málaga | Randy | 14 | 0.016 | 2,680 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Randy 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.