Randall

Where Randall comes from

A Middle English variant of Randolph, preserved as a surname and revived in the twentieth century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Randall
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1955
    Peak, #53
    6,688 babies named Randall — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #100.
  4. 1974
    Randall Park born
    American actor
  5. 1984
    Randall Munroe born
    American cartoonist, author and engineer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Randall Park · American actor, born 1974
  • Randall Munroe · American cartoonist, author and engineer, born 1984
  • Randall Duk Kim · American actor, born 1943
  • Randall Azofeifa · Costa Rican footballer, born 1984
  • Randall Brenes · Costa Rican footballer, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.