Royal Names
These names have all sat on real thrones — English, French, Russian, Spanish, Scandinavian. Royal names age differently: constant re-coronation keeps them from ever sounding dated for long.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Stuart kings who united the crowns. | 11,945#6 | Steady | 1947 | ||
From the Conqueror to the Prince of Wales. | 10,545#9 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Queens regnant of England, and Scotland's tragic queen. | 2,230#125 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The Lionheart. | 1,505#234 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1946 | ||
Two Stuart kings and the current one. | 5,898#48 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Gloriana, and the record-holding second Elizabeth. | 6,760#17 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Six British kings and a young prince. | 2,848#126 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Eight English kings, one of them a saint. | 1,591#224 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
The Tudor matriarch and a mid-century princess. | 2,436#112 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The last tsar. | 3,115#112 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Eight of them — one with six wives; Harry is its nickname. | 12,020#5 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Two Russian empresses — one Great — and the Princess of Wales. | 972#314 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 1956 | ||
A princess in nearly every European generation since Victoria. | 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Camelot's king; a middle name of modern princes. | 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The queen who named an age. | 4,027#54 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Victoria's prince consort. | 461#614 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Queen consort of George III; the young princess of Wales. | 13,400#2 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Castile's queen, who bankrolled Columbus. | 10,666#7 | Steady | 2010 | ||
Fourteen French kings, Sun King included. | 1,391#249 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The People's Princess. | 1,277#244 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Kings of Spain and France; the late Duke of Edinburgh. | 568#528 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1953 | ||
Eleanor of Aquitaine — queen of France, then of England. | 7,649#12 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Victoria's sculptor daughter. | 579#516 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
A queen of Great Britain; the Princess Royal. | 472#619 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Prussia's philosopher-king, the Great. | 728#435 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 1951 | ||
Queen consort of George II, patron of Enlightenment science. | 2,646#96 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
An Edwardian queen and the last Romanov empress. | 1,314#237 | Down 99 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Victoria's youngest daughter; a princess again today. | 583#508 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The Romanov daughter legend refused to let die. | 1,832#163 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
The empress who fought a civil war for England's crown. | 838#365 | Up 113 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Queen consort of William IV; Australia named a city for her. | 1,062#289 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Queen of Denmark, mother of Margrethe II. | 209#1,121 | Down 113 rank positions in five years | 1967 | ||
Sweden's beloved princess who became Belgium's queen. | 818#376 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 2024 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.