Roy
Roy is ranked 541st among boys in 2024 (552 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1889–1894.
- Rank in 2024
- #541up 15 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5520.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 19477,560 births
- Best rank
- #18first in 1889
- Since 1880
- 410,743people given the name
The story in the numbers
408,050 boys have been named Roy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 7,560 births — 0.41% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 552 births in 2024, against 7,560 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1940s alone account for 16%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 89 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,693 girls have also been given it, 0.66% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6,565 | |
| 1890s | 9,779 | |
| 1900s | 10,632 | |
| 1910s | 40,340 | |
| 1920s | 63,259 | |
| 1930s | 51,495 | |
| 1940s | 65,645 | |
| 1950s | 61,847 | |
| 1960s | 40,044 | |
| 1970s | 22,352 | |
| 1980s | 14,308 | |
| 1990s | 8,600 | |
| 2000s | 5,578 | |
| 2010s | 5,015 | |
| 2020s | 2,591 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Roy was the 48th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Roy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shermanpeak 1950
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Vernpeak 1920
- Earlpeak 1921
- Raypeak 1926
- Nedpeak 1939
- Clydepeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.