Loyal
Loyal was given to 233 boys in 2025, #983 among boys’ names; 6,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,750 Americans named Loyal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loyal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loyal?
#983 among boys’ names, 2025
Loyal rose from #2,030 in 2015 to #983 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.14 per 1,000.
416 babies in 2022, the peak
Loyal peaked in 2022, when 416 babies were given it (377 boys, #700 among boys’ names). The 254 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 233 | #983 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 275 | #879 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 356 | #740 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 377 | #700 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 336 | #754 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 190 | #1,055 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,579 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,037 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 72 | #1,992 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,323 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (133)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,030 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,691 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,800 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,085 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,623 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,639 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,450 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,674 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,358 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,019 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,267 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,162 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,982 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,331 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,837 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,263 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,009 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,046 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,283 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,859 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,830 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 30 | #1,443 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,571 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,507 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,454 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,813 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,614 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,703 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,561 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,545 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,076 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,447 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,581 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,114 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,485 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 50 | #995 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 52 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 47 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 57 | #833 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 50 | #901 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 67 | #807 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 55 | #896 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 54 | #867 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 45 | #959 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 50 | #876 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 52 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 48 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 64 | #763 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 45 | #949 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 51 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 60 | #797 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 77 | #706 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 85 | #645 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 62 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 68 | #784 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 78 | #728 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 75 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 74 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 98 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 89 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 105 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 85 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 85 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 94 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 95 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 106 | #595 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 74 | #709 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 77 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 68 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 71 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 45 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 44 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 13 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 21 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 17 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,077 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 11 | #843 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 17 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 9 | #886 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 10 | #792 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 14 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 11 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 10 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,126 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,148 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 7 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 8 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 11 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 11 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 11 | #577 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 13 | #555 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Loyal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,439 Americans recorded as Loyal, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 girls and 233 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loyal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loyal, and how old are they?
3,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 6,439 Americans ever recorded as Loyal. The median Loyal alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,857 people named Loyal (242 women and girls, 1,615 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 193 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 351 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 161 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 91 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,650 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Loyal born?
The states with the most babies named Loyal are Georgia, Texas and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 23 | #477 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,087 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 13 | #695 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,037 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #778 | 0.6× |
| New York | 11 | #1,091 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #821 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 9 | #810 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #913 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 9 | #546 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Loyal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,728 babies since 1880, Loyal is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 254 of their 254 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Loyal and names like it
- Compare Loyal and LoelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLoyal peaked in 2022.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loyal since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Loyal.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Loyal alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.