Rand
Rand is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 656th, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1952112 births
- Best rank
- #656in 1952
- Since 1913
- 3,080people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,945 boys have been named Rand in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 112 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 135 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rand | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | |
| 1920s | 25 | |
| 1930s | 62 | |
| 1940s | 444 | |
| 1950s | 982 | |
| 1960s | 478 | |
| 1970s | 178 | |
| 1980s | 177 | |
| 1990s | 171 | |
| 2000s | 152 | |
| 2010s | 186 | |
| 2020s | 83 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Rand was the 656th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Rand
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dannypeak 1954
- Butchpeak 1956
- Alanpeak 1955
- Garrypeak 1954
- Terrypeak 1957
- Brucepeak 1956
- Garypeak 1952
- Ronneypeak 1955
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.