Talk:Randall (given name)

A fact from Randall (given name) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning "shield" (or "rim") and "wolf"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 11:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Randal and Randall (given names) → Randall (given name) — I originally wanted this article to treat Randal and Randall equally, but I think we might as well include the other 3 variations of the name that come up in the cited references. Having five names in a title seems like overkill, so I think we better just use the most common name - Randall - and use Randal (given name) as the hub.Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 19:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree per nom. Mhiji (talk) 04:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Sensible and compatible with all naming conventions that I can think of. Andrewa (talk) 14:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Pick one spelling and go with it. — AjaxSmack 01:41, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Randal

Randal, in 1204 (in Yorkshire, England) is considered in this article as a variant spelling of Randel and a secondary form from it Randel > Randal. Is this a document written in Anglo-Norman ? In this language the probability to confuse -al with -el is very limited. -dal does not sound as -del there are never confused in Norman. For instance, the toponymic elements Delle and Dalle are never confused with another. In English, it is different, but the evolution of the words borrowed from Norman show the opposite solution Old Norman traval > ME travel. There is a third possibility, that can only been confirmed by genealogists : there would have been a knight *de Randal, from the hamlet of Randal (Manche), that would have gotten lands in Great-Britain after the battle of Hastings and it would have been corrupted in Randall, Randle, etc. together with other names. In this article : the early mentions Randal (1204), Rande (1299) and Randulfus (about 1095) are clearly unrelated, I do not mean the common Proto-Germanic name element RAND, of course, but I mean the names by themselves. The question is like always : where is the oldest mentioned form ?Nortmannus (talk) 19:47, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not a set-index article

I removed a very old section of this talk page. It’s irrelevant since this article is not set index and qualifies for nomination of good article status clearly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6010:7601:7D57:9144:2A75:76AC:4B14 (talk) 18:09, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GAN note

I wanted to nominate this article as I stumbled upon it and found it to be very satisfactory as far as quality goes. I hope others can also see this and suggest improvements.