Meaning not yet researched.
Randal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #190 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #190 in 1958; #5,345 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Randal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,345 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #190.
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Randal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #190 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 1,477 (1958).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Randal, making it the 5,345th most common boys’ name of the year, up 257 places from #5,602 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 17 boys named Randal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #190, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,477. For comparison, it was #2,903 in 2015 and #305 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Randal in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 9 babies. In all, 29,324 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 10,374 babies named Randal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 224 US boys were named Randal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Randy (334,472 babies since 1880), Randall (199,745 babies since 1880), Randell (10,159 babies since 1880) and Randel (3,676 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Randal 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 | — | — | 18 | #5,345 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,602 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,633 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,272 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,740 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,713 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,768 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,587 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,956 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,286 |
| 2015 | — | — | 41 | #2,903 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,598 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,834 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,861 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,095 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,776 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,804 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,666 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,361 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,275 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,689 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,068 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,145 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,658 |
| 2001 | — | — | 54 | #2,002 |
| 2000 | — | — | 70 | #1,662 |
| 1999 | — | — | 95 | #1,289 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,333 |
| 1997 | — | — | 108 | #1,149 |
| 1996 | — | — | 79 | #1,365 |
| 1995 | — | — | 113 | #1,060 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,466 | 136 | #949 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,183 | 165 | #824 |
| 1992 | — | — | 152 | #860 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,805 | 180 | #764 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,922 | 199 | #722 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,552 | 237 | #651 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,996 | 227 | #632 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,709 | 236 | #590 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,663 | 233 | #582 |
| 1985 | — | — | 262 | #543 |
| 1984 | — | — | 231 | #563 |
| 1983 | — | — | 231 | #554 |
| 1982 | — | — | 253 | #542 |
| 1981 | — | — | 275 | #510 |
| 1980 | — | — | 233 | #565 |
| 1979 | — | — | 237 | #560 |
| 1978 | — | — | 246 | #525 |
| 1977 | — | — | 271 | #494 |
| 1976 | — | — | 260 | #495 |
| 1975 | — | — | 302 | #465 |
| 1974 | — | — | 299 | #461 |
| 1973 | — | — | 357 | #415 |
| 1972 | — | — | 383 | #401 |
| 1971 | — | — | 451 | #379 |
| 1970 | — | — | 559 | #341 |
| 1969 | — | — | 574 | #324 |
| 1968 | — | — | 591 | #311 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,594 | 659 | #283 |
| 1966 | — | — | 690 | #278 |
| 1965 | — | — | 690 | #285 |
| 1964 | — | — | 823 | #269 |
| 1963 | — | — | 912 | #251 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,337 | 1,019 | #244 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,389 | 1,155 | #233 |
| 1960 | — | — | 1,273 | #219 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,065 | 1,436 | #201 |
| 1958 | — | — | 1,477 | #190 |
| 1957 | — | — | 1,458 | #192 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,321 | #203 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,128 | #214 |
| 1954 | — | — | 895 | #236 |
| 1953 | — | — | 770 | #243 |
| 1952 | — | — | 730 | #254 |
| 1951 | — | — | 663 | #261 |
| 1950 | — | — | 490 | #305 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,867 | 450 | #324 |
| 1948 | — | — | 306 | #390 |
| 1947 | — | — | 267 | #419 |
| 1946 | — | — | 187 | #467 |
| 1945 | — | — | 122 | #542 |
| 1944 | — | — | 103 | #610 |
| 1943 | — | — | 87 | #691 |
| 1942 | — | — | 63 | #818 |
| 1941 | — | — | 71 | #736 |
| 1940 | — | — | 51 | #886 |
| 1939 | — | — | 52 | #855 |
| 1938 | — | — | 51 | #878 |
| 1937 | — | — | 31 | #1,205 |
| 1936 | — | — | 35 | #1,113 |
| 1935 | — | — | 36 | #1,095 |
| 1934 | — | — | 22 | #1,487 |
| 1933 | — | — | 21 | #1,534 |
| 1932 | — | — | 34 | #1,171 |
| 1931 | — | — | 19 | #1,681 |
| 1930 | — | — | 33 | #1,252 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,780 |
| 1928 | — | — | 23 | #1,600 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,110 |
| 1926 | — | — | 28 | #1,398 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,163 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,767 |
| 1923 | — | — | 24 | #1,582 |
| 1922 | — | — | 24 | #1,579 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,885 |
| 1920 | — | — | 19 | #1,871 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,587 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,170 |
| 1916 | — | — | 19 | #1,685 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,648 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,756 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,733 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,223 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,068 |
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).