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Randell vs Randle

American parents have registered 10,159 Randells since 1880, against 2,936 Randles. Randell is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randell against Randle, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randell Randle

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 122 years in which either name was published, Randell for 102 years and Randle for 20 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Randell Randle
Total US births 10,1592,936
Most in one year 32184
Babies in 2025 125
Estimated living today 7,7001,900
Median age today 5859
Peak year 19601954
Best rank 450th boys778th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd12,008th
First recorded 19121882
Girls / boys 148 / 10,0117 / 2,929

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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