Meaning not yet researched.
Rand: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #656 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #656 in 1952; #6,074 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Rand in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,074 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #656.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Rand: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #656 in 1952 · most boys in one year: 112 (1952).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Rand, making it the 6,074th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,059 places from #5,015 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 20 boys named Rand in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #656, reached in 1952. That year also had the most boys given the name: 112. For comparison, it was #5,235 in 2015 and #677 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Rand, making it the 14,537th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,386 places from #13,151 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 girls named Rand in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,862, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 13. For comparison, it was #10,011 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rand in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 3,101 US babies have been given the name, 4.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 982 babies named Rand.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US boys were named Rand; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Rande are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rande (616).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rand in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,537 | 15 | #6,074 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,151 | 20 | #5,015 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,632 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,811 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,726 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,823 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,198 | 16 | #5,742 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,240 | 18 | #5,262 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,423 | 20 | #4,890 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,948 | 21 | #4,740 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,011 | 18 | #5,235 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,862 | 18 | #5,216 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,686 | 15 | #5,856 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,656 | 22 | #4,497 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,943 | 22 | #4,472 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,505 | 16 | #5,678 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,547 | 13 | #6,723 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,995 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,847 | 13 | #6,531 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,777 | 15 | #5,723 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,989 | 16 | #5,227 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,101 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,770 | 15 | #5,211 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,935 | 17 | #4,661 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,326 | 8 | #8,140 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,337 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,806 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,595 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,327 | 18 | #3,849 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,144 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,813 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,085 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,936 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,803 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,967 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,297 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,415 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,182 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,534 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,211 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,917 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,876 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,764 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,248 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,655 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,702 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,654 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,357 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,549 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,682 |
| 1975 | — | — | 22 | #2,115 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,436 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,109 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,510 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,191 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,649 |
| 1969 | — | — | 33 | #1,409 |
| 1968 | — | — | 38 | #1,245 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,096 |
| 1966 | — | — | 47 | #1,086 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,354 |
| 1964 | — | — | 54 | #1,034 |
| 1963 | — | — | 39 | #1,251 |
| 1962 | — | — | 63 | #965 |
| 1961 | — | — | 69 | #922 |
| 1960 | — | — | 56 | #1,030 |
| 1959 | — | — | 78 | #868 |
| 1958 | — | — | 93 | #775 |
| 1957 | — | — | 102 | #746 |
| 1956 | — | — | 99 | #740 |
| 1955 | — | — | 81 | #816 |
| 1954 | — | — | 108 | #697 |
| 1953 | — | — | 102 | #706 |
| 1952 | — | — | 112 | #656 |
| 1951 | — | — | 102 | #696 |
| 1950 | — | — | 105 | #677 |
| 1949 | — | — | 100 | #686 |
| 1948 | — | — | 88 | #716 |
| 1947 | — | — | 65 | #867 |
| 1946 | — | — | 41 | #1,088 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,030 |
| 1944 | — | — | 34 | #1,149 |
| 1943 | — | — | 28 | #1,335 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,667 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,576 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,443 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #3,053 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,157 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,068 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,804 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,571 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,099 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,556 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,166 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,723 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,103 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,193 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,453 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).