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Randle

#13,435 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Randle has been given to 2,936 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #13,435 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Randle, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Randle: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Randle means

Randle is a given name.

The naming story behind Randle

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Randle in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 335.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Eng. Teu. house wolf”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Randle, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,929 boys were recorded with the name Randle between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1954; its best national rank was #783 in 1954.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,371 in 2015 to #13,435 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Randle between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1986; its best national rank was #9,295 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 Randle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,435
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Randle 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 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Randle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Randles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Randle was born before 1958 — so the typical Randle is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,008
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1950s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (667).

Is Randle 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,064
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.0%
Peak was 1954 (84)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#783
1954

Spellings of Randle

Randle is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 45.4% against Randle's 0.40%.

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 Randle is used

Across 1910–2025, Randle was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 130,417 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

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. Randle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Randle around the world

Where Randle 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
    1952–1985
    #449
    in 1985

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

Notable people named Randle

People whose public names include Randle, 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.

Randle by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,435
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#783
1954
Peak year
1954
84 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,929
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,295
1986
Peak year
1986
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Randle

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

RansomRangerRanceRandelRandRandonRandellRansonRandalRanveerRanvirRanbirRandolRandiRandieRandolfRankinRandenRannieRandeRanierRandaleRandeeRane

Names with a curve like Randle

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

LennieKenneyJameRudolfoDelLawranceRoddyMelLeighVernellGaylonAlphonzo

Sibling names for Randle

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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