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Origin / History of the Randle Name

This interesting surname is English, and occasionally Scottish, with two possible origins.  The first is from the Middle English given name ‘Randel’, a diminutive of the personal name ‘Rande’, to which was added the Norman French diminutive suffix ‘-el’; meaning little, to give Little Rand or more likely son of Rande.  Rande meaning shield, was a first element in many pre-7^th Century Anglo-Saxon and Germanic compound personal names, such as the popular Randolph.  The second source is a form of the Olde English personal names Randwulf or Randulf, themselves from the Norse-Viking name ‘Rondulfr’, and derived from the elements meaning shield and wolf.  The personal name was first recorded as Randal, in the Assize Court Rolls of the county of Yorkshire, England, in 1204, whilst in Scotland possibly the first surname recording is that of Harry Randell, of Orkney, in 1436.  The modern surname can be found as Randall, Randell, Randle, Rendall, Rendell and Rendle.

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