Loyalty
- #1,833 for girls in 2025, 109 births
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Given to girls 84.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 269 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,334since 2004
Loyalty over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,833 | 109 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #1,457 | 150 | #2,835 | 45 |
| 2023 | #1,085 | 228 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #1,039 | 246 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #965 | 269 | #2,775 | 45 |
| 2020 | #1,132 | 211 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #1,054 | 243 | #3,052 | 39 |
| 2018 | #1,135 | 215 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #1,451 | 155 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #1,598 | 138 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #1,996 | 99 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
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| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
2004
The first year at least five girls were named Loyalty! It came in at #16,099, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Loyalty is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- Louisiana#677 · 1 in 2,728
- Wisconsin#791 · 1 in 4,052
- North Carolina#834 · 1 in 4,226
- Georgia#1,075 · 1 in 5,651
- Michigan#1,210 · 1 in 7,146
Best ever in a state: #360 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #677 | 6 | 1 in 2,728 |
| Wisconsin | #791 | 5 | 1 in 4,052 |
| North Carolina | #834 | 11 | 1 in 4,226 |
| Georgia | #1,075 | 8 | 1 in 5,651 |
| Michigan | #1,210 | 5 | 1 in 7,146 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| Texas | #1,902 | 11 | 1 in 14,595 |
| Florida | #2,151 | 5 | 1 in 17,352 |
| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Loyalty
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 701 spots since 2020 (#1,132 → #1,833)
- 163 spots since 2015 (#1,996 → #1,833)
- Biggest jump: 167 spots in 2021
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2022
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2021 at #965 (269 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2021
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,100
- Highest: 1 in 6,100 girls born in 2021 were named Loyalty (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,746 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 52.0% of all girls named Loyalty (1,213) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2007
- Mostly boys until 2006, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 57 | #5,097 (2009) | #11,841 |
| 2010s | 1,064 | #1,054 (2019) | #2,897 |
| 2020s | 1,213 | #965 (2021) | #1,252 |
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.
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