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Randolf

Boys' name

Rim (of a shield) + wolf

Randolf has been given to 972 babies in the U.S. since 1939. 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 1955, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Randolf, 2004

1 in 478,000

Randolf over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Randolf: meaning, origin, and history

Rim (of a shield) + wolf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Randolf means

Randolf means “rim (of a shield) + wolf”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Randolf is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹæn.ˌdɔlf/ for Randolf.

Origin, language, and formation

Randolf is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Randolph.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 972 boys were recorded with the name Randolf between 1939 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1955; its best national rank was #955 in 1955.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Randolf?

Randolf had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 248,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,995 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Randolf 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 2004 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 330,995 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Randolf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Randolfs were born

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

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
863
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Choose a decade

1950s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (423).

Is Randolf 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 1955 (62)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#955
1955

Spellings of Randolf

Randolf is not the most common spelling — Randall is, with 65.9% against Randolf's 0.32%.

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 Randolf is used

Across 1910–2025, Randolf was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 399,944 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Randolf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Randolf around the world

Where Randolf 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
    1954–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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

Randolf 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
—
Best rank ever
#955
1955
Peak year
1955
62 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
972
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Randolf

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

RanveerRangerRansonRandleRandaleRanvirRandellRansomRanbirRandolRandonRanceRandieRandiRankinRansomeRanferiRandenRandelRandRanulfoRannieRandeRanier

Sibling names for Randolf

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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