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Loyalty

#1,838 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Legal

Loyalty has been given to 2,776 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #1,838 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 269 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.

Babies named Loyalty, 2025

1 in 30,400

Loyalty over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Loyalty over time

In 2025, Loyalty went to 83% girls and 17% boys.

20042025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Loyalty: meaning, origin, and history

Legal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loyalty means

Loyalty means “legal”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,334 girls were recorded with the name Loyalty between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 269 in 2021; its best national rank was #966 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,132 in 2020 to #1,838 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,006 in 2015 to #1,838 in 2025.

In the United States, 442 boys were recorded with the name Loyalty between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,800 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,772 in 2020 to #4,482 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,427 in 2015 to #4,482 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Loyalty?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,400
109 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,838
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,083 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loyalty sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,083 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loyalty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loyaltys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loyalty was born before 2020 — so the typical Loyalty is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,334
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (1,213).

Is Loyalty rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−378
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−706
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+168
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.5%
Peak was 2021 (269)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#966
2021

Spellings of Loyalty

Loyalty is not the most common spelling — Royalty is, with 71.8% against Loyalty's 23.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Loyalty is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Loyalty was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 7,643 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

242 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,381
  2. 2Georgia1 in 3,704
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 4,545
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 4,762
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 4,762
  6. 6Missouri1 in 5,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 5,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 5,556

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Loyalty is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Loyalty was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 397,315 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Loyalty has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loyalty by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 706
Best rank ever
#966
2021
Peak year
2021
269 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,334
Count in 2025
109

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 710
Best rank ever
#2,800
2021
Peak year
2021
45 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
442
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Loyalty

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Loyalty

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Loyalty, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Loyalty

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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