Royce — #462 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Royce

The Social Security Administration has registered 32,543 babies named Royce between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Royce currently holds the #462 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 809 babies received it in a single year. Royce is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,488 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Royce performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,782 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Royce shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5,468 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Royce in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Royce 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 32,543 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.