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Randa

#11,696 in 2025Girls' name

Scented tree

Randa has been given to 3,690 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #11,696 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Randa, 2025

1 in 414,000

Randa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Randa: meaning, origin, and history

Scented tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Randa means

Randa means “scented tree”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Randa is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈran.da/ for Randa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,690 girls were recorded with the name Randa between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,091 in 1953.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,157 in 2020 to #11,696 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,700 in 2015 to #11,696 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Randa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,696
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Randa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Randa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Randas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Randa was born before 1978 — so the typical Randa is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (737).

Is Randa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,451
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,461
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−996
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1991 (107)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,091
1953

Spellings of Randa

Randa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 20.4% against Randa's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Randa is used

Across 1910–2025, Randa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 120,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Randa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Randa around the world

Where Randa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    1978–2024
    #3,311
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #502
    in 1955

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Randa

People whose public names include Randa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Randa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,696
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,461
Best rank ever
#1,091
1953
Peak year
1991
107 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,690
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Randa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Randa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Randa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Randa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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