Royse
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Royse has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1930. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.
Babies named Royse, 2016
1 in 734,000
Royse over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Royse over time
In 2021, Royse went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Royse?
Royse had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Royse sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Royse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Royses were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Royse was born before 1947 — so the typical Royse is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Royse 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1930 (6)
- Years since peak
- 95
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Royse
Royse is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 47.4% against Royse'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.
Royse by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Royse
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Royse
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.