Loyal — #876 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Loyal

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,705 babies named Loyal between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Loyal currently holds the #876 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 377 babies received it in a single year. Loyal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 478 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loyal performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,533 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Loyal shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 206 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Loyal in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loyal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,705 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.