Royal — #427 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Royal

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,413 babies named Royal between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Royal currently holds the #427 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 884 babies received it in a single year. Royal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,190 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Royal performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,358 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Royal shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,329 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Royal in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Royal 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 19,413 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.