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Roya

#2,379 in 2025Girls' name

Dream

Roya has been given to 1,623 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #2,379 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Roya, 2025

1 in 43,600

Roya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roya: meaning, origin, and history

Dream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roya means

Roya means “dream”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,623 girls were recorded with the name Roya between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,379 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,489 in 2020 to #2,379 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,292 in 2015 to #2,379 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 Roya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,379
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Royas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roya was born before 2006 — so the typical Roya is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,623
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Roya 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
+389
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,110
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+913
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (76)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,379
2025

Spellings of Roya

Roya is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 15.9% against Roya's 0.05%.

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 Roya is used

Across 1910–2025, Roya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 140,475 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

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. Roya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roya around the world

Where Roya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2015
    #896
    in 2015
  • France
    2014–2025
    #3,481
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Roya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,379
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,110
Best rank ever
#2,379
2025
Peak year
2025
76 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,623
Count in 2025
76

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Sibling names for Roya

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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