Randy
Randy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 218 births. Its best rank was 28th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2180.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 195616,547 births
- Best rank
- #28in 1956
- Since 1915
- 334,271people given the name
The story in the numbers
329,266 boys have been named Randy in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 16,547 births — 0.78% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 218 births in 2024, against 16,547 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 37%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 37 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,005 girls have also been given it, 1.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Randy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 25 | |
| 1920s | 79 | |
| 1930s | 530 | |
| 1940s | 14,164 | |
| 1950s | 120,534 | |
| 1960s | 93,878 | |
| 1970s | 36,546 | |
| 1980s | 29,514 | |
| 1990s | 16,785 | |
| 2000s | 10,356 | |
| 2010s | 5,633 | |
| 2020s | 1,222 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Randy was the 28th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Randy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Randalpeak 1958
- Rickypeak 1958
- Rickpeak 1958
- Markpeak 1960
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Rickeypeak 1958
- Kempeak 1956
- Randallpeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.