girls:
132 births since 1949
#5584 (2nd percentile)
boys:
29.2k births since 1909
#677 (85th percentile)
overall:
29.3k births since 1909
#1492 (81st percentile)
The name Randal is the #1,492 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,288 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 80.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #677 (85.2% percentile) for all time with 29,156 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,584 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 132 births since 1949.
Randal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 1949 for girls). Birth data for Randal is available in 113 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Randal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Randal reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 71.7% percentile (ranked #189) with 685 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 685 births per million (ranked 71.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Randal ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Randal reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #782) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Randal".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Randal is pronounced as RAN-duhl, which has 2 syllables.
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