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Royalty

#782 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

English word name: royalty

Royalty has been given to 7,751 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #782 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 937 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Royalty, 2025

1 in 9,550

Royalty 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Royalty over time

In 2025, Royalty went to 93% girls and 7% boys.

20012025

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.

Royalty: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: royalty

English

What Royalty means

Royalty is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word royalty; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,225 girls were recorded with the name Royalty between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 937 in 2019; its best national rank was #339 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #392 in 2020 to #782 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,151 in 2015 to #782 in 2025.

In the United States, 526 boys were recorded with the name Royalty between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,467 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,650 in 2020 to #3,927 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,572 in 2015 to #3,927 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 Royalty?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,550
347 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,630
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#782
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,623 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Royalty 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,623 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Royalty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Royaltys were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,225
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2020s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (3,617).

Is Royalty 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
−69
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−390
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+369
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2019 (937)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#339
2019

Spellings of Royalty

Royalty is the most-used spelling, taking 47.1% of the 15,331 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Royalty is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Royalty was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 441 girls, against 1 in 1,993 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 25,000).

4227 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 441
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 704
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 800
  4. 4Alabama1 in 820
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 826
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,000
  7. 7Delaware1 in 1,136
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 1,299

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.

Geographically, Royalty is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 82% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Royalty is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Royalty was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 593,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Royalty has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Royalty around the world

Where Royalty 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
    2017–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2020
    #5,859
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2016–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Royalty by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#782
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 390
Best rank ever
#339
2019
Peak year
2019
937 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,225
Count in 2025
347

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,927
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,277
Best rank ever
#2,467
2018
Peak year
2018
53 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
526
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Royalty

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

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Names with a curve like Royalty

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

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Sibling names for Royalty

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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