as a First Name
Mainly North American and Australian: as a boy's name this originated as a pet form of Randall, Randolf, or Andrew. As a girl's name it may have originated either as a transferred use of the boy's name or else as a pet form of Miranda (compare Randa). It is now fairly commonly used as an independent name, mainly by men, in spite of the unfortunate connotations of the colloquial adjective meaning ‘lustful’.
| 149th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 386,038
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Randy per capita
- 1956
- marked the height of its popularity
0.73%
99.27%
31%
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55+
54%
30-54
30-54
10%
13-29
13-29
6%
0-12
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Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
