girls:
25 births since 1986
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1914
#2053 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1914
#4523 (42nd percentile)
The name Randel is the #4,523 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,676 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 41.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,053 (55.2% percentile) for all time with 3,651 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1986.
Randel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Randel is available in 103 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 4 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 Randel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Randel reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 18.4% percentile (ranked #537) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 59 births per million (ranked 18.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 2016, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Randel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Randel reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #800) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Randel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Randel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Randall" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Randall..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Randel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Randel is pronounced as RAN-duhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAN-dehl, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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