# Royalty (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/royalty/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,751 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 526 / 7,225 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 77, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 5,180 |
| 2012 | 28 | 5,084 |
| 2013 | 44 | 3,563 |
| 2014 | 63 | 2,775 |
| 2015 | 221 | 1,151 |
| 2016 | 584 | 535 |
| 2017 | 757 | 420 |
| 2018 | 850 | 370 |
| 2019 | 937 | 339 |
| 2020 | 794 | 392 |
| 2021 | 810 | 387 |
| 2022 | 740 | 428 |
| 2023 | 532 | 562 |
| 2024 | 394 | 713 |
| 2025 | 347 | 782 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,406 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,951 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,455 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,371 |
| 2015 | 31 | 3,573 |
| 2016 | 40 | 2,977 |
| 2017 | 43 | 2,833 |
| 2018 | 53 | 2,468 |
| 2019 | 43 | 2,892 |
| 2020 | 48 | 2,651 |
| 2021 | 34 | 3,410 |
| 2022 | 46 | 2,824 |
| 2023 | 41 | 3,052 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3,443 |
| 2025 | 28 | 3,928 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,138 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.