Randi
Randi is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
As a female first name, Randi is a particularly English diminutive of the first name Miranda and a younger Norwegian short form of the Old Norse female first name Randid , which occurs in the Scandinavian-speaking area. The Arabic surname Al-Randi is not related to the female first name.
Name bearer
First name
- Randi Bakke (1904–1984), Norwegian figure skater
- Randi Bratteli (1924–2002), Norwegian journalist and non-fiction author
- Randi Crott (* 1951), German journalist
- Randi Holand (* 1936), Norwegian badminton player
- Randi Ingerman (* 1967), American actress
- Randi Laubek (* 1973), Danish singer and songwriter
- Randi Kolstad (1925–1999), Norwegian actress
- Randi Lindtner Næss (1905–2009), Norwegian soprano and actress
- Randi Zuckerberg (* 1982), American author and entrepreneur, former marketing director at Facebook
family name
- Ermanno Randi (1920–1951), Italian actor
- Lorenzo Ilarione Randi (1818–1887), Italian cardinal to the curia
- Musa'ed Al-Randi , Kuwaiti handball player
stage name
- Don Randi (* 1937), American musician and composer
- James Randi (* 1928), American stage magician
Fictional character
- Randi from Norway , Astrid Lindgren's book for young people from 1965
See also
- Randy
- the asteroid named after James Randi (3163) Randi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randi on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Randi on nordicnames.de (engl.)
- ↑ Randi on vornames-weltweit.de