girls:
112 births since 1943
#5604 (2nd percentile)
boys:
49.4k births since 1880
#502 (89th percentile)
overall:
49.5k births since 1880
#1081 (86th percentile)
The name Randolph is the #1,081 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,498 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #502 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 49,386 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,604 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 112 births since 1943.
Randolph has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1943 for girls).
The name Randolph has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Randolph reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 75.2% percentile (ranked #153) with 921 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 921 births per million (ranked 75.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1954, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Randolph ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Randolph reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #690) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1953, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Randolph".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Randolph. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Randolph is pronounced as RAN-dahlf, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAN-dawlf, at 30.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R AE1 N D AA0 L F) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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