Randle

Where Randle comes from

Randle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1600
    Randle Cotgrave born
    English lexicographer
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1891
    Peak, #766
    7 babies named Randle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1951
    Randle Mell born
    American actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Randle Cotgrave · English lexicographer, 1600–1634
  • Randle Mell · American actor, born 1951
  • Randle Ayrton · Stage and film actor and producer, 1869–1940
  • Randle Darwall-Smith · English cricketer, 1914–1999

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.