Meaning not yet researched.
Randy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 198 in 2025. Its best rank was #28 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #28 in 1956; #1,089 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Randy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,089 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #28.
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Randy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 198 boys in 2025. Peak: #28 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 16,547 (1956).
In 2025, 198 US boys were named Randy, making it the 1,089th most common boys’ name of the year, down 72 places from #1,017 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 220 boys named Randy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #28, reached in 1956. That year also had the most boys given the name: 16,547. For comparison, it was #569 in 2015 and #80 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Randy in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 334,472 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 122,475 babies named Randy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,955 US boys were named Randy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 427. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,627 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Randy ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #432 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Randall (199,745 babies since 1880), Randi (30,799 babies since 1880), Randal (29,324 babies since 1880) and Randee (3,012 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Randye, Randey and Ranndy are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Randye (134), Randey (31), Ranndy (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 8 | #432 | #531 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #515 | #400 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #656 | #577 |
| Oregon | 5 | #685 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #768 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #904 | #579 |
| Texas | 28 | #909 | #451 |
| Arizona | 6 | #914 | #988 |
| Washington | 6 | #973 | #491 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,047 | #708 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,074 | #695 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,094 | #892 |
| California | 19 | #1,108 | #543 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,149 | #759 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,192 | #492 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,245 | #403 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,448 | #426 |
| New York | 7 | #1,534 | #521 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 198 | #1,089 |
| 2024 | — | — | 220 | #1,017 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,783 | 236 | #957 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,282 | 254 | #912 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,875 | 250 | #917 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,995 | 265 | #859 |
| 2019 | — | — | 349 | #709 |
| 2018 | — | — | 372 | #674 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,878 | 384 | #664 |
| 2016 | — | — | 427 | #628 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,998 | 493 | #569 |
| 2014 | — | — | 548 | #510 |
| 2013 | — | — | 641 | #448 |
| 2012 | — | — | 696 | #413 |
| 2011 | — | — | 841 | #356 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,200 | 883 | #347 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,876 | 996 | #321 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,540 | 1,102 | #302 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,129 | 1,004 | #319 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,778 | 1,052 | #310 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,990 | 1,082 | #306 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,637 | 977 | #316 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,135 | 936 | #317 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,936 | 1,017 | #294 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,641 | 1,054 | #285 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,714 | 1,136 | #278 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,102 | 1,139 | #263 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,088 | 1,276 | #244 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,743 | 1,362 | #226 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,305 | 1,509 | #206 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,173 | 1,509 | #202 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,803 | 1,644 | #186 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,495 | 1,701 | #188 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,196 | 2,008 | #159 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,302 | 2,160 | #148 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,978 | 2,477 | #131 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,867 | 2,604 | #127 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,918 | 2,716 | #113 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,763 | 2,786 | #105 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,368 | 2,728 | #103 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,921 | 2,881 | #102 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,177 | 2,909 | #100 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,147 | 2,926 | #96 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,356 | 3,229 | #94 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,519 | 3,343 | #91 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,039 | 3,390 | #87 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,331 | 3,416 | #86 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,953 | 3,220 | #86 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,115 | 3,397 | #86 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,743 | 3,320 | #79 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,187 | 3,385 | #78 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,054 | 3,342 | #79 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,821 | 3,345 | #79 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,826 | 3,739 | #70 |
| 1971 | 67 | #1,510 | 4,345 | #67 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,648 | 5,036 | #59 |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,436 | 5,265 | #55 |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,516 | 5,709 | #54 |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,141 | 6,799 | #49 |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,151 | 7,758 | #45 |
| 1965 | 114 | #965 | 8,861 | #42 |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,057 | 10,302 | #38 |
| 1963 | 119 | #978 | 10,535 | #37 |
| 1962 | 130 | #933 | 11,840 | #35 |
| 1961 | 152 | #865 | 12,603 | #33 |
| 1960 | 153 | #836 | 14,206 | #32 |
| 1959 | 187 | #745 | 15,042 | #31 |
| 1958 | 146 | #849 | 15,188 | #32 |
| 1957 | 155 | #817 | 16,464 | #31 |
| 1956 | 193 | #691 | 16,547 | #28 |
| 1955 | 191 | #680 | 14,958 | #30 |
| 1954 | 195 | #662 | 12,638 | #33 |
| 1953 | 205 | #620 | 10,666 | #35 |
| 1952 | 239 | #563 | 8,646 | #41 |
| 1951 | 227 | #566 | 6,034 | #56 |
| 1950 | 200 | #598 | 4,354 | #80 |
| 1949 | 163 | #654 | 3,623 | #92 |
| 1948 | 163 | #654 | 3,141 | #99 |
| 1947 | 120 | #793 | 2,501 | #116 |
| 1946 | 109 | #790 | 1,637 | #148 |
| 1945 | 50 | #1,115 | 1,107 | #162 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,308 | 805 | #191 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,166 | 584 | #242 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,408 | 379 | #316 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,501 | 207 | #409 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,781 | 181 | #433 |
| 1939 | — | — | 137 | #492 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,776 | 101 | #584 |
| 1937 | — | — | 80 | #667 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,066 | 59 | #805 |
| 1935 | — | — | 48 | #921 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,168 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,630 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,767 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,081 |
| 1930 | — | — | 21 | #1,640 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,434 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,022 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,198 | 11 | #2,667 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,479 | 13 | #2,401 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,666 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,731 | 5 | #4,827 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,862 | 7 | #3,744 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,473 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,748 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,068 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,631 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,375 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,741 |
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).