girls:
443 births since 1916
#5273 (8th percentile)
boys:
5.4k births since 1882
#1621 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1882
#3541 (54th percentile)
The name Loyal is the #3,541 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,872 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 54.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,621 (64.6% percentile) for all time with 5,429 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,273 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 443 births since 1916.
Loyal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1916 for girls). Birth data for Loyal is available in 131 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 23 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Loyal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.8% of babies named Loyal were boys.
For boys, Loyal reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 37.5% percentile (ranked #578) with 201 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 201 births per million (ranked 37.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Loyal is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #586 (35.7% percentile) with 193 births per million.
For girls, Loyal reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #883) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Loyal ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 70.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loyal".
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