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Randa

Girl · RAN-dah · Arabic

Randa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “fragrant tree”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Randa mean?

Arabic: from randa, a fragrant desert tree

“fragrant tree”

An Arabic name for a sweet-smelling desert shrub; in English-speaking families Randa can also be a short form of Miranda.

Say it
RAN-dah

Is Randa a girl's or a boy's name?

Randa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Randa in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 7 girls.

Half of all the girls named Randa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 7 in 20182022
Randa in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20224#4,870
20214#4,864
20200–
20194#4,904
20187#3,344
20173#5,998
20165#4,290
20154#4,951
20144#4,888
20130–
20125#4,390
20113#6,007
20103#5,938
20093#5,801
20080–
20073#5,415
20063#5,259
20056#3,133
20045#3,356
20033#4,560
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19963#3,935

How popular is Randa in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Randa, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 107 girls. It first appears in the records in 1916.

2025 had more girls named Randa than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Randa in the US since 1880 were born between 1959 and 1991, the years shaded on the chart below.

1916Busiest: 107 in 19912025
Randa in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20247#12,156
20235#15,188
20227#12,237
20215#15,246
20207#12,137
20199#10,467
201810#9,801
20178#11,611
20166#14,326
201510#10,143
20147#13,063
201314#8,131
201214#8,204
20115#16,756
20107#13,442
200911#9,971
200814#8,525
200716#7,729
200622#5,904
200522#5,595
200418#6,484
200318#6,294
200230#4,175
200136#3,627
200034#3,733
199948#2,809
199839#3,170
199752#2,478
199657#2,311
199550#2,511
199475#1,885
199369#2,007
199276#1,851
1991107#1,474
199078#1,824
198953#2,245
198872#1,755
198781#1,552
198662#1,815
198584#1,472
198470#1,593
198357#1,838
198290#1,363
198175#1,568
198093#1,351
197985#1,431
197865#1,633
197776#1,451
197653#1,775
197556#1,689
197445#1,913
197342#1,939
197252#1,698
197149#1,805
197054#1,706
196951#1,685
196844#1,776
196743#1,751
196646#1,646
196549#1,595
196439#1,891
196350#1,597
196231#2,112
196136#1,920
196050#1,579
195930#2,053
195846#1,577
195753#1,457
195654#1,436
195550#1,422
195458#1,299
195379#1,081
195256#1,268
195158#1,214
195067#1,122
194955#1,219
194859#1,172
194767#1,085
194657#1,120
194529#1,513
194432#1,432
194323#1,790
194215#2,310
194116#2,095
19407#3,501
19398#3,143
19386#3,845
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19290–
19285#4,723
19270–
19260–
19250–
19240–
19230–
19220–
19210–
19200–
19190–
19180–
19170–
19166#3,917

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