Randolph

At the 2020 census, 39,297 Americans bore the surname Randolph — 866th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,606.

By the numbers

People: 39,297
Rank: 866th
How common: 1 in 7,606
Per 100,000: 13.2

Where the name comes from

From + úlfr (“wolf”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Randolph described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.6%
Black, not Hispanic 36.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Randolph

Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772–1836)First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809
Edmund Randolph (1753–1813)American attorney
Darren Randolph (born 1987)Irish association football player
Da'Vine Joy Randolph (born 1986)American actress
Zach Randolph (born 1981)American basketball player
John Randolph (1915–2004)American actor
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979)Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician
Anthony Randolph (born 1989)American basketball player

People named Randolph with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Randolph

Also a first name

Randolph has been given to 49,536 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1952. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.