In 2025, 20 US boys were named Randolph, making it the 5,003rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 600 places from #5,603 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 17 boys named Randolph in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #154, reached in 1952. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,817. For comparison, it was #2,709 in 2015 and #162 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Randolph in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 19 babies with the name. In all, 49,536 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 15,540 babies named Randolph.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 276 US boys were named Randolph; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rudolph (53,638 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Randolf, Randalph and Randolfo are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dolph and Randy.