Randy

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Randy is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pet-form of Rand (Randolph); first attested Malie Randie 1573 Black (Perth).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 394◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 913
  • CACanada1 in 943

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈269K ●

across 8 countries

#728 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
546 ●

3.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 394 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

RandyLatin · English●3.2M records
רנדיHebrew · Hebrew●812 records
랜디Hangul · Korean●2 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Randi in NO Norway, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 1 more and רנדי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

pet-form of Rand (Randolph); first attested Malie Randie 1573 Black (Perth)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Randy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#167246,8872.8M rec.1 in 1.3K247KRandy546
PH Philippines#83183,131172K rec.——Randy147
GB United Kingdom#285111,949111K rec.——Randy128
CA Canada#14888,22481K rec.—1Randy212
AU Australia#46037,16337K rec.—3Randy133
IT Italy#38518,99119K rec.——Randy58
DE Germany#83013,96314K rec.——Randy121
NO Norway#7313,894△5.7K rec.1 in 39445KRandi86
SG Singapore#5210,09210K rec.——Randy78
RU Russia—7,2987.4K rec.——Randy37
VE Venezuela—7,1422 rec.——Randy4
EG Egypt#9134,2434.1K rec.——Randy33

Roughly 247K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.2M83%
  • Spanish192K5%
  • 60K2%
  • French40K1%
  • German32K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,219,48983%
Spanish191,5985%
60,0592%
French39,6631%
German32,0181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Randy is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name252K records spelled Randy33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Venezuela, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Rändy, Rândy, Ràndý, Råndy, Randý

  • Indonesian given name34K records spelled Randy4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Randy

  • Polish given name16K records spelled Randy26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Randi, Ранди, Rendi, Ренди

  • Greek given name8.0K records spelled Randy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Ραντι, Ranti

  • Thai given name6.1K records spelled Randy17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Rand, แรนดี้, Raen, แรนดี, แรนด์

  • Hungarian given name5.5K records spelled Randy5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, Philippines

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rándy, Rändy

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Randy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19201940196019802000202017K · 1956

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Randy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19156
19165
19187
19196
19207
19228
19237
19245
19257
192613
192711
19289
192912
193021
193114
193218
193319
193433
193548
193659
193780
1938101
1939137
1940181
1941207
1942379
1943584
1944805
19451,107
19461,637
19472,501
19483,141
19493,623
19504,354
19516,034
19528,646
195310,666
195412,638
195514,958
195616,547
195716,464
195815,188
195915,042
196014,206
196112,603
196211,840
196310,535
196410,302
19658,861
19667,758
19676,799
19685,709
19695,265
19705,036
19714,345
19723,739
19733,345
19743,342
19753,385
19763,320
19773,397
19783,220
19793,416
19803,390
19813,343
19823,229
19832,926
19842,909
19852,881
19862,728
19872,786
19882,716
19892,604
19902,477
19912,160
19922,008
19931,701
19941,644
19951,509
19961,509
19971,362
19981,276
19991,139
20001,136
20011,054
20021,017
2003936
2004977
20051,082
20061,052
20071,004
20081,102
2009996
2010883
2011841
2012696
2013641
2014548
2015493
2016427
2017384
2018372
2019349
2020265
2021250
2022254
2023236
2024220
2025198

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

194019601980Randy Meisner, b. 1946Randy Edelman, b. 1947Randy Schekman, b. 1948Randy Quaid, b. 1950Randy Brooks, b. 1950Randy Wittman, b. 1959Randy Travis, b. 1959Randy Pausch, b. 1960Randy Couture, b. 1963Randy Harrison, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 86 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Randy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020247K#218
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.7K#218
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.4K#1,218
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.1K#345
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20231.8K#2,945
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025769#100
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—368#5,667
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—321#2,898
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020253#80,815
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022209—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000208#83,965
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025198—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 702 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Randy?
We estimate roughly 269 thousand people bear Randy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Randy have the most bearers?
We estimate about 247 thousand people bear Randy in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled randy.
Where is Randy most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Randy is densest in Norway — about 1 in 394 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Randy compared with other names?
In the United States, Randy is the 167th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Randy a male or female name?
Randy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Randy mean?
Recorded meaning: pet-form of Rand (Randolph); first attested Malie Randie 1573 Black (Perth)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Randy” — the 167th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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