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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Rand

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#6,074

down −1,059 places

2025 births

15

down −5 births

All-time births

2,960

1% of them in 2025

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1952
112 births
Best rank
#656
in 1952
First recorded
1913
#2,453 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1968
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
98 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1952112#656Peak
  2. 1954108#697
  3. 1950105#677
  4. 1951102#696
  5. 1953102#706

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #656 in 1952 · peak births 112 in 1952

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 95% boys■ 5% girls

2,960 boys · 141 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Rand has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.