Randall is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Randall isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Randall ranks 928. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Randall. In the entire USA, approximately 194,253 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Randall. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
#53 - this is the highest position Randall has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Randall reached this top position was in the last century, in 1955, when 6,711 newborn boys were named Randall. But as our statistics show, Randall has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1885, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Randall is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn sons.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Randall was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 152 newborns were given the name Randall, making them rank #1,168. Although the name Randall was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their sons. So the chances of an encounter with a young Randall are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Randall is one of them. However, Randall is not equally widespread in all states, but people in West Virginia seem to particularly fancy this name – the 3,830 men called Randall who live here are 0,250% of all male residents and push their name up to #88 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in West Virginia. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 194,253 people with the name Randall. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Randall on position 174 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Randall has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Randall and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Randall, you can simply say:
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Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Lion
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Randall
Randall
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Randall sounds like this:
