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Randel

Boys' name

Rim (of a shield)

Randel has been given to 3,676 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Randel, 2023

1 in 663,000

Randel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Randel: meaning, origin, and history

Rim (of a shield)

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Randel means

Randel means “rim (of a shield)”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Randel is used in Medieval English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Randel → Randolf. The family’s meaning is “rim (of a shield) + wolf”, recorded in the naming reference for Randolf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Randolf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,651 boys were recorded with the name Randel between 1914 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1957; its best national rank was #659 in 1953.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Randel between 1986 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1986; its best national rank was #9,293 in 1986.

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 Randel?

Randel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Randel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Randel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Randels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Randel was born before 1960 — so the typical Randel is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,018
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (1,104).

Is Randel 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (128)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#659
1953

Spellings of Randel

Randel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 60.0% against Randel's 0.11%.

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 Randel is used

Across 1910–2025, Randel was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 101,336 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Randel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Randel around the world

Where Randel 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.

  • South Australia
    1957–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Randel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Randel. Linked forms have their own page here.

Randall

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Randel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#659
1953
Peak year
1957
128 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,651
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,293
1986
Peak year
1986
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Randel

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

RandleRansomRangerRanceYandelMendelRandRandellWendelRandonRandalRansonRaudelRanveerRanvirRanbirRandolFidelRandiRandieRandolfAbdelRankinAdel

Names with a curve like Randel

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

ButchDelSkipKenneySusanLesRockLonnyLennieKarenKimberlyRitchie

Sibling names for Randel

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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