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Randa vs Randi

American parents have registered 30,799 Randis since 1880, against 3,690 Randas. Randi is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randa against Randi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randa Randi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 91 years in which either name was published, Randi for 88 years and Randa for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Randa Randi
Total US births 3,69030,799
Most in one year 1071,109
Babies in 2025 834
Estimated living today 3,30029,000
Median age today 4541
Peak year 19911982
Best rank 1,478th girls235th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th4,172nd
First recorded 19161931
Girls / boys 3,690 / 029,663 / 1,136

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Randas alive today are over 45; half the Randis are over 41. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Randa Randi
France 3355

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Randa and Randi.