Meaning & Origin
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Randall is a boy's and girl's baby name of Germanic origin, from the medieval English name Randel, a variant of Randolph — from the Old Norse Randulfr, combining rand ("shield rim") and ulfr ("wolf"), meaning "shield wolf." It transferred from medieval given name to surname and back to given name through American naming traditions.
Randall ranked in the U.S. top 40 boys' names in the 1950s and 1960s. The deeply empathetic character Randall Pearson on This Is Us, played by Sterling K. Brown, gave the name a contemporary image of emotional intelligence and quiet strength — a fitting modern incarnation of a name that has always meant something solid.