girls:
4k births since 1928
#2735 (52nd percentile)
boys:
18.7k births since 1880
#842 (82nd percentile)
overall:
22.7k births since 1880
#1683 (78th percentile)
The name Royal is the #1,683 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,658 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #842 (81.6% percentile) for all time with 18,666 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,735 (52.1% percentile) for all time with 3,992 births since 1928.
Royal has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls).
The name Royal has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 75.6% of babies named Royal were boys.
For boys, Royal reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 62.7% percentile (ranked #345) with 469 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 471 births per million (ranked 62.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Royal ranks #373 for boys (59.1% percentile) with 431 births per million, which is 91.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Royal reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 44.6% percentile (ranked #531) with 246 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 246 births per million (ranked 44.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Royal ranks #702 for girls (25.9% percentile) with 145 births per million, which is 59.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Royal".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Royal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Royal is pronounced as ROY-uhl, which has 2 syllables.
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