Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Randall
/RAN · dul/
Meaning
“Old English surname turned given name”
Old English surname turned given name, derived from Randulf, from rand (shield rim) and wulf (wolf); the shield-wolf image is striking for a name that mostly reads as a 1950s American dad name today.
Nicknames
randy · rand
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peaked in mid-20th century America; strongly dated to the 1950s-70s, ripe for ironic retro revival.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US from the 1940s through the 1960s; steadily declining since the 1980s.