Royalty

#782 for girls in 2025, 347 births · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to girls 93.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
2019 · 937 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,225
since 2001

Royalty over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202021peak #339, 2019peak #2,445, 2018girlsboys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#782347#3,84828
2024#712394#3,39434
2023#562532#3,00541
2022#428740#2,79346
2021#386810#3,36234
2020#391794#2,61748
2019#339937#2,85143
2018#370850#2,44553
2017#420757#2,79843
2016#534584#2,93540
2015#1,146221#3,51331
2014#2,73963#4,26323
2013#3,51344#7,02611
2012#4,95728#6,62612
2011#5,06327#7,00911
2010#5,77123#8,1399
2009#6,81119#8,9858
2008#7,40817#12,5535
2007#9,53912
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First appearance
2001

The first year at least five girls were named Royalty! It came in at #13,521, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002–2004, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Royalty
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 70 spots since 2024 (#712#782)
  • 391 spots since 2020 (#391#782)
  • 364 spots since 2015 (#1,146#782)
  • Biggest jump: 612 spots in 2016 (#1,146#534)
  • Biggest drop: 150 spots in 2024 (#562#712)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2001
  • Peaked 2019 at #339 (937 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,791
  • Highest: 1 in 1,791 girls born in 2019 were named Royalty (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,632 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 50.1% of all girls named Royalty (3,617) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s74#6,811 (2009)#9,670
2010s3,534#339 (2019)#2,485
2020s3,617#386 (2021)#544

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.

Royalty in 2021

girls
#386
810 births · 1 in 2,026 girls
boys
#3,362
34 births · 1 in 51,455 boys

Top girls' names in 2021

  1. #1Olivia17,847
  2. #2Emma15,549
  3. #3Charlotte13,368
  4. #4Amelia13,041
  5. #5Ava12,873
  6. #6Sophia12,585
  7. #7Isabella11,309
  8. #8Mia11,177
  9. #9Evelyn9,495
  10. #10Harper8,448
  11. #386Royalty810

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #3,362Royalty34
More about 2021

girls

1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,026 of them was named Royalty, which outranked 97.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Royalty
  1. #383Nayeli817
  2. #384Kira814
  3. #385Annalise812
  4. #386Royalty810
  5. #386Camryn810
  6. #386Serena810
  7. #389Laura807
  8. #390Celine802
  9. #390Rylie802

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 437Raya#932#495
  2. 396Wrenley#893#497
  3. 298Angelique#1,173#875
  4. 283Emberlynn#1,241#958
  5. 276Flora#924#648
Fallers
  1. 475Denisse#852#1,327
  2. 347Denise#876#1,223
  3. 267Karen#821#1,088
  4. 227Keily#854#1,081
  5. 227Nathalie#911#1,138

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

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 51,455 of them was named Royalty, which outranked 76.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Royalty
  1. #3,297Zakhi35
  2. #3,297Zidane35
  3. #3,297Zylan35
  4. #3,362Royalty34
  5. #3,362Adair34
  6. #3,362Aero34
  7. #3,362Agam34
  8. #3,427Akil33
  9. #3,427Alston33
  10. #3,427Atlee33

Tied with 64 names at #3,362; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 536Amiri#1,295#759
  2. 438Eliam#1,177#739
  3. 343Colter#972#629
  4. 333Ozzy#1,046#713
  5. 299Loyal#1,053#754
Fallers
  1. 352Jaxtyn#585#937
  2. 259Karsyn#698#957
  3. 231Xzavier#976#1,207
  4. 208Tristen#846#1,054
  5. 208Willie#992#1,200

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

See the top 100 for 2021