Royale
Royale is given to both girls and boys: 29 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,731 among girls’ names and #4,510 among boys’, #5,527 among all names counting both); 1,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Royale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Royale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Royale?
#4,731 among girls’ names, 2025
Royale fell from #2,549 in 2015 to #4,731 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 18.0 per million.
115 babies in 2021, the peak
Royale peaked in 2021, when 115 babies were given it (60 girls, #2,844 among girls’ names). The 52 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,731 | 23 | #4,510 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,217 | 38 | #3,203 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,133 | 48 | #2,723 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,026 | 55 | #2,510 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,844 | 55 | #2,457 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,005 | 47 | #2,684 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,646 | 40 | #3,039 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,475 | 35 | #3,289 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,131 | 32 | #3,499 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,615 | 29 | #3,755 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,549 | 35 | #3,290 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,132 | 27 | #3,866 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,970 | 21 | #4,583 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,135 | 12 | #6,944 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,536 | 9 | #8,631 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,320 | 9 | #8,653 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,246 | 14 | #6,362 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,650 | 17 | #5,436 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,669 | 5 | #13,992 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,217 | 11 | #7,319 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,185 | 5 | #11,947 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,849 | 9 | #7,277 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,152 | 10 | #6,414 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,924 | 11 | #5,754 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,641 | 6 | #9,035 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,328 | 6 | #8,799 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,410 | 12 | #5,055 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,502 | 5 | #9,958 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,176 | 11 | #5,278 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,246 | 8 | #6,569 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,890 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,715 | 8 | #6,294 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,578 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,290 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,362 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,372 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,752 | 5 | #7,119 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,503 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,725 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,902 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,443 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,355 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Royale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,608 Americans recorded as Royale, 58% are girls and 42% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Royale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Royale, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,608 Americans ever recorded as Royale. The median Royale alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 881 people named Royale (515 women and girls, 366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,056 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 233 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,749 babies since 1880, Royale is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 60 babies (87%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Royale
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 Royale and names like it
- Compare Royale and RoyelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRoyale peaked in 2021.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Royale since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Royale.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Royale alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.