Royan

#7,572 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Royan has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #7,572 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Royan, 2025

1 in 301,000

Royan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Royan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,572
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Royan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Royan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Royans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Royan was born before 2022 — so the typical Royan is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
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2020s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Royan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,572
2025

Spellings of Royan

Royan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 32.7% against Royan's <0.01%.

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.

Royan around the world

Where Royan 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
    2021–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2000–2018
    #5,467
    in 2018

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

Royan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,572
2025
Peak year
2025
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Royan

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

Sibling names for Royan

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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