Royale

#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to girls 57.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2018 · 72 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
930
since 1977

Royale over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #2,457, 2018girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,66129#4,39623
2024#3,17650#3,16138
2023#3,09153#2,69348
2022#2,99555#2,49355
2021#2,81860#2,43955
2020#2,96654#2,65847
2019#2,63266#2,99340
2018#2,45772#3,24035
2017#3,09152#3,44032
2016#2,59468#3,68129
2015#2,52471#3,23135
2014#3,11253#3,78727
2013#5,83422#4,46321
2012#7,80415#6,62612
2011#8,19614#8,0799
2010#9,79011#8,1399
2009#11,4599#6,09514
2008#10,08411#5,24917
2007#12,6768#12,3675
2006#11,4179#6,90411
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2001#12,0567#10,5565
2000#11,8017#6,8399
1999#9,4799#6,04210
1998#9,2609#5,46611
1997#9,0179#8,1106
1996#13,5185#7,9716
1995#7,04112#4,79112
1994#10,5697#8,8005
1993#5,95515#5,00211
1992#9,4918#6,1288
1991#6,58813
1990#12,9585#5,8238
1989#9,6817
1988#5,7517
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1985#5,7856
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1983#8,0477#6,2385
1982#5,0037
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1979#9,0106
1978#8,5626
1977#8,4446
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five girls were named Royale! It came in at #8,444, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,485 spots since 2024 (#3,176#4,661)
  • 1,695 spots since 2020 (#2,966#4,661)
  • 2,137 spots since 2015 (#2,524#4,661)
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2018 at #2,457 (72 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,626
  • Highest: 1 in 23,626 girls born in 2018 were named Royale (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 47.7% of all girls named Royale (444) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s18#8,444 (1977)#8,672
1980s24#8,047 (1983)#9,758
1990s92#5,955 (1993)#9,388
2000s51#10,084 (2008)#11,582
2010s444#2,457 (2018)#4,803
2020s301#2,818 (2021)#3,285

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Royale in 2016

girls
#2,594
68 births · 1 in 26,059 girls
boys
#3,681
29 births · 1 in 65,439 boys

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #2,594Royale68

Top boys' names in 2016

  1. #1Noah19,188
  2. #2Liam18,277
  3. #3William15,810
  4. #4Mason15,287
  5. #5James14,920
  6. #6Benjamin14,686
  7. #7Jacob14,559
  8. #8Michael14,145
  9. #9Elijah13,982
  10. #10Ethan13,855
  11. #3,681Royale29
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 26,059 of them was named Royale, which outranked 86.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Royale
  1. #2,560Uma69
  2. #2,560Winona69
  3. #2,560Zarina69
  4. #2,594Royale68
  5. #2,594Abigayle68
  6. #2,594Ainara68
  7. #2,594Alyza68
  8. #2,617Alizabeth67
  9. #2,617Arianne67
  10. #2,617Brynna67

Tied with 22 names at #2,594; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 65,439 of them was named Royale, which outranked 74.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Royale
  1. #3,596Yan30
  2. #3,596Yeshaya30
  3. #3,596Zakariah30
  4. #3,681Royale29
  5. #3,681Abdoulaye29
  6. #3,681Affan29
  7. #3,681Akil29
  8. #3,776Aadhav28
  9. #3,776Adian28
  10. #3,776Aleksandar28

Tied with 94 names at #3,681; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,327Kylo#3,231#904
  2. 355Creed#1,340#985
  3. 349Benicio#1,327#978
  4. 303Adonis#698#395
  5. 291Fox#1,035#744
Fallers
  1. 477Jonael#922#1,399
  2. 238Aaden#784#1,022
  3. 233Triston#950#1,183
  4. 223Freddy#993#1,216
  5. 207Chace#934#1,141

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016