girls:
2.7k births since 1885
#3341 (42nd percentile)
boys:
407.5k births since 1880
#82 (98th percentile)
overall:
410.2k births since 1880
#173 (98th percentile)
The name Roy is the #173 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 410,169 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #82 (98.2% percentile) for all time with 407,476 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,341 (41.5% percentile) for all time with 2,693 births since 1885.
Roy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1885 for girls).
The name Roy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roy reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 94.6% percentile (ranked #31) with 5,609 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 8,192 births per million (ranked 91.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Roy ranks #483 for boys (47.0% percentile) with 287 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roy reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #539) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 58 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Roy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Roy is pronounced as roy, which has 1 syllables.
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