Randal
Randal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 190th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19581,477 births
- Best rank
- #190in 1958
- Since 1909
- 29,174people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,174 boys have been named Randal in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 1,477 births.
The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 1,477 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 36%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Randal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 9 | |
| 1910s | 117 | |
| 1920s | 208 | |
| 1930s | 334 | |
| 1940s | 1,707 | |
| 1950s | 10,367 | |
| 1960s | 8,386 | |
| 1970s | 3,366 | |
| 1980s | 2,419 | |
| 1990s | 1,317 | |
| 2000s | 533 | |
| 2010s | 308 | |
| 2020s | 103 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Randal was the 190th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Randal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Randypeak 1956
- Rickypeak 1958
- Rickpeak 1958
- Markpeak 1960
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Randallpeak 1960
- Kerrypeak 1960
- Kempeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
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.