Roya
Roya was given to 76 girls in 2025, #2,379 among girls’ names; 1,623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Roya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roya?
#2,379 among girls’ names, 2025
Roya rose from #3,292 in 2015 to #2,379 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 47.3 per million.
76 babies in 2025, the peak
Roya peaked in 2025, when 76 girls were given it, #2,379 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 62 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,379 | 47.3 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,768 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,462 | 45.5 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,406 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,724 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,489 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,078 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,957 | 32.9 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,130 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,512 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,292 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,313 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,795 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,825 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,691 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,341 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,764 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,402 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,501 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,167 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,677 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,178 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,556 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,632 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,764 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,756 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,867 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,307 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,968 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,703 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,342 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,209 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,492 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,393 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,020 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,129 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,796 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,023 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,957 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,252 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,954 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,842 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,240 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,134 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,823 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,271 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,748 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,629 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,803 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,464 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,774 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,854 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,951 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,106 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,437 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,785 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,367 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,533 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,694 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,702 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,630 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,115 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,564 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,831 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,546 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roya, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,623 Americans ever recorded as Roya. The median Roya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,894 people named Roya (2,867 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 138 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 347 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 667 |
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 Roya born?
The states with the most babies named Roya are California, Washington and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,351 | 1.9× |
| Washington | 10 | #670 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,842 | 0.2× |
Where Roya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roya is most over-represented in California: since 1955 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Roya 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,227 babies since 1880, Roya is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 268 babies (28%), again the second 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Roya and names like it
- Compare Roya and RoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRoya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Roya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Roya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.