Royalty
#782 for girls in 2025, 347 births · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to girls 93.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 937 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,225since 2001
Royalty 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #782 | 347 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #712 | 394 | #3,394 | 34 |
| 2023 | #562 | 532 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #428 | 740 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | #386 | 810 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #391 | 794 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #339 | 937 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #370 | 850 | #2,445 | 53 |
| 2017 | #420 | 757 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #534 | 584 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 2015 | #1,146 | 221 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #2,739 | 63 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | — | |
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| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | — | |
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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.
Where Royalty is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#76 · 1 in 359
- Delaware#98 · 1 in 301
- South Carolina#105 · 1 in 454
- Arkansas#117 · 1 in 469
- Mississippi#129 · 1 in 501
Best ever in a state: #68 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #76 | 53 | 1 in 359 |
| Delaware | #98 | 8 | 1 in 301 |
| South Carolina | #105 | 39 | 1 in 454 |
| Arkansas | #117 | 23 | 1 in 469 |
| Mississippi | #129 | 21 | 1 in 501 |
| Alabama | #136 | 34 | 1 in 556 |
| Georgia | #154 | 65 | 1 in 713 |
| Tennessee | #184 | 38 | 1 in 805 |
| Illinois | #247 | 47 | 1 in 1,097 |
| Florida | #248 | 74 | 1 in 1,143 |
| North Carolina | #252 | 42 | 1 in 1,069 |
| Missouri | #255 | 25 | 1 in 1,024 |
| Wisconsin | #257 | 21 | 1 in 1,038 |
| Indiana | #295 | 24 | 1 in 1,201 |
| Ohio | #298 | 40 | 1 in 1,264 |
| Michigan | #311 | 31 | 1 in 1,286 |
| Nevada | #336 | 8 | 1 in 1,268 |
| Texas | #363 | 90 | 1 in 1,762 |
| Oklahoma | #371 | 11 | 1 in 1,401 |
| Kentucky | #420 | 10 | 1 in 1,750 |
| New York | #436 | 42 | 1 in 2,021 |
| Connecticut | #445 | 6 | 1 in 1,936 |
| Minnesota | #476 | 11 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Pennsylvania | #514 | 21 | 1 in 2,376 |
| Maryland | #534 | 10 | 1 in 2,238 |
| Colorado | #560 | 9 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Virginia | #569 | 14 | 1 in 2,520 |
| Iowa | #589 | 5 | 1 in 2,431 |
| Massachusetts | #600 | 8 | 1 in 3,089 |
| New Jersey | #612 | 12 | 1 in 2,926 |
| Arizona | #630 | 10 | 1 in 2,862 |
| Oregon | #631 | 5 | 1 in 2,772 |
| California | #689 | 50 | 1 in 3,691 |
| Washington | #936 | 6 | 1 in 4,963 |
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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 Royalty
- 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)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2019 at #339 (937 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- 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%)
- 50.1% of all girls named Royalty (3,617) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 74 | #6,811 (2009) | #9,670 |
| 2010s | 3,534 | #339 (2019) | #2,485 |
| 2020s | 3,617 | #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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 1,791 of them was named Royalty, which outranked 98.1% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 41,726 of them was named Royalty, which outranked 79.8% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,808Xzander44
- #2,808Zahid44
- #2,808Ziad44
- #2,851Royalty43
- #2,851Aasir43
- #2,851Abdoulaye43
- #2,851Adhvik43
- #2,897Aadvik42
- #2,897Abdias42
- #2,897Abimael42
Tied with 45 names at #2,851; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.