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Randi vs Randie

American parents have registered 30,799 Randis since 1880, against 2,058 Randies. Randi is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Randi Randie

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

Randi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1931 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1945, when Randi had 35 and Randie had 17.

Side by side

  Randi Randie
Total US births 30,7992,058
Most in one year 1,10977
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 29,0001,800
Median age today 4151
Peak year 19821952
Best rank 235th girls1,225th girls
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19311943
Girls / boys 29,663 / 1,1361,541 / 517

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 Randies alive today are over 51; half the Randis are over 41. That is 10 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.

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