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Around the globe, Randolph (Randolph , Рэндольф , רנדולף ) is a common boy's given name. The first name Randolph is characteristic of Curacao, where it is quite a common masculine name, Aruba, and the United States, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United States, Philippines, and South Africa. Likewise, Randolph is the last name as well as the forename.
Randolph is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Randolph Carter , the fictional human, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; Randolph Duke , the fictional character from the 1983 film Trading Places; Randolph , the character from 2006 film 'The Cheetah Girls 2'; Randolph Johnson , character in Free Willy and Randolph Delapore , the character from The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft, and in many other works.