Royal

boys’ name · 82%girls’ name · 18%At its peakCompare

Royal is ranked 427th among boys in 2024 (738 births). Its best rank was 279th, in 1889.

Rank in 2024: #427down 26 from 2023
Births in 2024: 7380.04% of boys
Peak year: 2021884 births
Best rank: #279in 1889
Since 1880: 23,603people given the name

Babies named Royal, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

19,413 boys have been named Royal in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 884 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 2010s alone account for 22%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Royal is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (4,190), most of them born around 2016.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Royal
1880s	274
1890s	299
1900s	312
1910s	1,338
1920s	2,030
1930s	1,355
1940s	1,289
1950s	1,068
1960s	735
1970s	561
1980s	496
1990s	502
2000s	764
2010s	4,358
2020s	4,032

In 2021, its biggest year

Royal was the 370th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Royal

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.