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Boy's name · #476 in the US (2025) · Comeback
76% boys · 24% girls — Royal is also given to girls: 125 in 2025, about 24% in recent years. Royal →
Royal was #279 in 1889, slipped to #2120 by 2003, and has climbed back to #476 today. Roughly 20,000 boys have been named Royal since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 38 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,127 in Canada (2025) · #2,014 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #6,005 in France (2025) · #21,637 in Italy (2024) · #3,280 in Austria (2024) · #4,807 in Ecuador (1968).
Among 119 notable people named Royal:
Military figures appear 4.74× more often than among typical names — e.g. Royal E. Ingersoll, United States Navy four-star admiral (1883–1976).
Similar names: Major · Royce · Forest · Porter · Foster · Clark
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