How Many People Are Named Randal?

22,506

people named Randal are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 15,186 people in the US has this name

Based on 29,324 babies named Randal in Social Security records from 1909 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,519

๐Ÿ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#643

See the top 100

Peak Year

1958

1,477 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: RAN-dษ™l
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of RANDALL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Randal in English. Counting Randal and these spellings together, about 181,189 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

RandulfRandรบlfrRandallRandellRandolfRandolphRandyRandelRanulfRanulph

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
0.6%
Male
99.5%

Of the babies given the name Randal, 0.6% were girls and 99.5% were boys.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Randal alive today is about 57 years old, and 57% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 50 and 68 in 2025.

Under 30 1,314
5.8%
30 to 59 8,462
37.6%
60 and over 12,730
56.6%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Randal first appears in the records in 1909 and was given most often in 1958, to 1,477 babies. In 2025, 18 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1909 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Randal has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #190, in 1958. In 2025 it ranked #5,343.

Boys
Rank in 2025#5,343
Best rank#190 (1958)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#221 in the 1950s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Randal alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Randal were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,941 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Randal was given 3.1 times as often in Hawaii, 2.1 times in Iowa and 2.1 times in Wisconsin.

Texas 1,941
California 1,937
Ohio 1,212
Illinois 1,084
Michigan 929
Wisconsin 879
Pennsylvania 754
Indiana 702
Tennessee 652
Missouri 600
Florida 587
Iowa 572
Louisiana 550
Washington 494
Minnesota 478
New York 461
North Carolina 445
Georgia 435
Oklahoma 425
Alabama 410
Kentucky 398
Kansas 342
Virginia 321
Arkansas 306
Nebraska 289
Colorado 280
Oregon 271
West Virginia 239
Hawaii 217
South Carolina 188
Mississippi 160
North Dakota 115
South Dakota 113
Massachusetts 100
Utah 98
New Jersey 95
Montana 88
Maryland 84
New Mexico 78
Idaho 53
Arizona 47
Maine 43
Connecticut 22
Wyoming 11
District of Columbia 8
Nevada 5
Delaware 4

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