Name in Japanese R Randall

Randall in Japanese

ランドール
Katakana
ランドール
Hiragana
らんどーる
Romaji (Hepburn)
Randōru

This is the established spelling used for Randall in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Randall sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ra
N
ドー
Ru

Full reading: Randōru

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Why Randall is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Randall appears as ランドール. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ランドール and immediately reads it by its sound, Randōru.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Randall becomes ランドール rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.