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Randi vs Raneem

American parents have registered 30,799 Randis since 1880, against 732 Raneems. Randi is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Randi Raneem

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 2025, when Randi had 34 and Raneem had 30.

Side by side

  Randi Raneem
Total US births 30,799732
Most in one year 1,10937
Babies in 2025 3430
Estimated living today 29,000730
Median age today 4115
Peak year 19822010
Best rank 235th girls4,023rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,172nd4,546th
First recorded 19311992
Girls / boys 29,663 / 1,136732 / 0

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 Randis alive today are over 41; half the Raneems are over 15. That is 26 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 Randi Raneem
France 525

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: Randi and Raneem.