Royalty
Royalty was given to 347 girls in 2025, #782 among girls’ names; 7,751 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,700 Americans named Royalty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Royalty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Royalty?
#782 among girls’ names, 2025
Royalty rose from #1,151 in 2015 to #782 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.22 per 1,000.
980 babies in 2019, the peak
Royalty peaked in 2019, when 980 babies were given it (937 girls, #339 among girls’ names). The 375 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 347 | #782 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 394 | #713 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 532 | #562 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 740 | #428 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 810 | #387 | 0.49 |
| 2020 | 794 | #392 | 0.49 |
| 2019 | 937 | #339 | 0.56 |
| 2018 | 850 | #370 | 0.50 |
| 2017 | 757 | #420 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 584 | #535 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 221 | #1,151 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,773 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,561 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,082 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,178 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,937 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,012 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,676 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,022 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,249 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,760 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,938 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Royalty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,751 Americans recorded as Royalty, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 347 girls and 28 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Royalty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Royalty, and how old are they?
7,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,751 Americans ever recorded as Royalty. The median Royalty alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 2,811 people named Royalty (2,607 women and girls, 204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 201 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,500 |
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 Royalty born?
The states with the most babies named Royalty are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 38 | #797 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 29 | #615 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 27 | #427 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #507 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 21 | #513 | 1.2× |
| California | 18 | #1,352 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 18 | #461 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 15 | #659 | 1.3× |
| New York | 15 | #1,021 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 15 | #343 | 1.9× |
Where Royalty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Royalty is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 2001 it was given 3.0 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 Royalty 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,307 babies since 1880, Royalty is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 375 of their 406 babies (92%), 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 Royalty
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 Royalty and names like it
- Compare Royalty and RoyaltiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRoyalty peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Royalty since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Royalty.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Royalty alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.