Rendall
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rendall has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1953, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Rendall, 1984
1 in 698,000
Rendall over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rendall?
Rendall had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 698,000
- 5 of 3,488,451 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 361,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 483,603 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rendall sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rendall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rendalls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rendall was born before 1962 — so the typical Rendall is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 44.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 47
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (21).
Is Rendall 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 1953 (6)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.0% average annual change
Spellings of Rendall
Rendall is not the most common spelling — Randall is, with 57.1% against Rendall's 0.01%.
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.
Rendall around the world
Where Rendall 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 & Wales2021–2025#4,867in 2025
- Ireland2023–2023#856in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Rendall by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rendall
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rendall
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.