girls:
33 births since 2014
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
93 births since 1998
#4493 (2nd percentile)
overall:
126 births since 1998
#7613 (2nd percentile)
The name Royel is the #7,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,493 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 93 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 2014.
Royel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Royel is available in 12 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 5 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 Royel has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Royel were boys.
For boys, Royel reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #907) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Royel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 46.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Royel reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #958) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Royel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Royel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Royel is pronounced as ROY-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROY-uhl, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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