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Randolph vs Ranveer

American parents have registered 49,536 Randolphs since 1880, against 536 Ranveers. But in 2025 it was Ranveer that was commoner, 30 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randolph against Ranveer, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randolph Ranveer

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 146 years in which either name was published, Randolph for 140 years and Ranveer for 6 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Randolph Ranveer
Total US births 49,536536
Most in one year 1,81744
Babies in 2025 2030
Estimated living today 30,000530
Median age today 659
Peak year 19522016
Best rank 154th boys2,726th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th3,658th
First recorded 18802005
Girls / boys 112 / 49,4240 / 536

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 Randolphs alive today are over 65; half the Ranveers are over 9. That is 56 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 Randolph Ranveer
England and Wales 6544

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: Randolph and Ranveer.