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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| 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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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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#613 · 1 in 2,437
- Ohio#677 · 1 in 3,343
- Wisconsin#724 · 1 in 3,384
- South Carolina#801 · 1 in 3,645
- Georgia#855 · 1 in 4,137
Best ever in a state: #360 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #613 | 7 | 1 in 2,437 |
| Ohio | #677 | 14 | 1 in 3,343 |
| Wisconsin | #724 | 6 | 1 in 3,384 |
| South Carolina | #801 | 5 | 1 in 3,645 |
| Georgia | #855 | 11 | 1 in 4,137 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 8 | 1 in 5,792 |
| North Carolina | #1,135 | 7 | 1 in 6,603 |
| Texas | #1,342 | 19 | 1 in 8,598 |
| Florida | #1,676 | 7 | 1 in 12,329 |
| California | #2,189 | 9 | 1 in 18,406 |
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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
- 376 spots since 2024 (#1,457 → #1,833)
- 701 spots since 2020 (#1,132 → #1,833)
- 163 spots since 2015 (#1,996 → #1,833)
- Biggest jump: 167 spots in 2021 (#1,132 → #965)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2022 (#965 → #1,039)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2021 at #965 (269 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2021
- 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%)
- 52.0% of all girls named Loyalty (1,213) were born in this decade
- 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.
Loyalty in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 10,801 of them was named Loyalty, which outranked 91.8% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,452Nashly151
- #1,452Shirley151
- #1,452Sofie151
- #1,457Loyalty150
- #1,457Adrienne150
- #1,457Aranza150
- #1,457Karma150
- #1,466Aislinn149
- #1,466Anita149
- #1,466Jael149
Tied with 8 names at #1,457; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 38,286 of them was named Loyalty, which outranked 80.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,789Zay46
- #2,789Zaydan46
- #2,789Zaylan46
- #2,835Loyalty45
- #2,835Amarii45
- #2,835Aylan45
- #2,835Caesar45
- #2,873Abdias44
- #2,873Adem44
- #2,873Amadou44
Tied with 37 names at #2,835; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.