Rand
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 95.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1952 · 112 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,960since 1913
Rand over time
Rank among boys' names. Rand has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,633 | 16 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,562 | 16 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | — | #4,005 | 22 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,693 | 17 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,030 | 23 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,747 | 25 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,325 | 17 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,079 | 17 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,161 | 26 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,569 | 18 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,568 | 18 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,065 | 22 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,036 | 20 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,396 | 33 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,233 | 38 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,087 | 46 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,073 | 47 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,335 | 33 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,025 | 54 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,238 | 39 | |
| 1962 | — | #953 | 63 | |
| 1961 | — | #915 | 69 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,021 | 56 | |
| 1959 | — | #864 | 78 | |
| 1958 | — | #771 | 93 | |
| 1957 | — | #744 | 102 | |
| 1956 | — | #737 | 99 | |
| 1955 | — | #812 | 81 | |
| 1954 | — | #694 | 108 | |
| 1953 | — | #701 | 102 | |
| 1952 | — | #653 | 112 | |
| 1951 | — | #693 | 102 | |
| 1950 | — | #677 | 105 | |
| 1949 | — | #683 | 100 | |
| 1948 | — | #713 | 88 | |
| 1947 | — | #861 | 65 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,076 | 41 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,016 | 39 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,135 | 34 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,308 | 28 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,322 | 10 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,084 | 12 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rand! It came in at #2,273, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1921, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rand is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#510 · 1 in 13,699
- Ohio#555 · 1 in 18,381
- California#557 · 1 in 11,315
- New York#748 · 1 in 29,042
Best ever in a state: #164 in Utah, 1947.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #510 | 7 | 1 in 13,699 |
| Ohio | #555 | 6 | 1 in 18,381 |
| California | #557 | 14 | 1 in 11,315 |
| New York | #748 | 6 | 1 in 29,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rand
- 971 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,861)
- 1,163 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,861)
- 803 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #5,861)
- Biggest jump: 215 spots in 1947 (#1,076 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 285 spots in 1963 (#953 → #1,238)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1952 at #653 (112 births)
- Births halved by 1960, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1947–1959
- Highest: 1 in 17,050 boys born in 1950 were named Rand (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #653 in 1952, was only 1 in 17,354 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all boys named Rand (982) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #2,273 (1913) | #2,273 |
| 1920s | 25 | #2,589 (1929) | #3,128 |
| 1930s | 62 | #1,992 (1937) | #2,939 |
| 1940s | 444 | #683 (1949) | #1,228 |
| 1950s | 982 | #653 (1952) | #735 |
| 1960s | 478 | #915 (1961) | #1,128 |
| 1970s | 178 | #1,615 (1970) | #2,439 |
| 1980s | 177 | #2,161 (1986) | #2,853 |
| 1990s | 171 | #2,747 (1992) | #3,885 |
| 2000s | 152 | #4,005 (2004) | #5,431 |
| 2010s | 186 | #4,356 (2011) | #5,004 |
| 2020s | 98 | #4,698 (2020) | #5,656 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rand in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 25,431 of them was named Rand, which outranked 81.5% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).