Randolph is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Randolph is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Randolph. In the SmartGenius ranking, Randolph is #2,829 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 43,711 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Randolph. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Randolph annualy. This means that there have been boys named Randolph who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Randolph have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Randolph even more than any other time: in 1952, it holds its present record at rank #152 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Randolph was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Randolph has never been ranked higher than #152. In 2022, he rivaled the 4,180 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 20 boys named Randolph were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Randolph were born, there have been 177 newborns who received this name.
The name Randolph may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Randolph is apparently especially popular in Virginia. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,010 men in Virginia is called Randolph. In total, that’s 3,639 people who feel addressed when the name Randolph is shouted loudly across Virginia and who ensure that their name makes it to #205 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Randolph as the answer a total of 43,711 times. This places Randolph at #476 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Randolph as a baby name is, of course, a bit 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 eight letters, the name Randolph is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Randolph 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 Randolph, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Orange
Lion
Pig
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Randolph
Randolph
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
D
O
L
P
H
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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A
N
D
O
L
P
H
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. Randolph sounds like this:
