Fun Facts About the Name Royalty
- More than 7 thousand babies named Royalty: U.S. records list 7,744 babies given the name Royalty from 1880 through 2025. Even 526 boys received the name Royalty - about 1 boy for every 14 girls.
What Does the Name Royalty Mean?
Royalty is an English word name taken from the noun royalty, meaning royal status, sovereignty, or the office and dignity of a king or queen. The noun entered Middle English from Old French roialté (also spelled realte), which goes back to Medieval Latin regalitas, a derivative of Latin regalis, "royal," from rex (genitive regis), "king." The literal sense is therefore the condition or quality of being a king - kingship itself.
Later the same word came to mean the sovereign or the royal family taken as a group ("the royalty"), and, separately, a payment owed to a crown or to the owner of property such as a mine or a patent. The given name is used in the older sense of royal rank and majesty rather than in the commercial sense.
Royalty Name History & Origins
The noun is medieval; the personal name is not. Roialté appears in Anglo-Norman and Middle English, where it named the authority, estate, and prerogatives of a monarch. It could refer to a single sovereign's rank or to the royal line collectively, and its spelling settled into royalty as English orthography became standardized.
As a first name, Royalty belongs to the modern English practice of taking ordinary vocabulary words, especially grand or aspirational ones, as given names. English already had Royal, which began as a surname and later became a given name, and Latin rex also lies behind Rex and Regina, though each of those has its own separate history. Royalty is a word name rather than a form inherited from Old English or medieval naming stock, and it is used mainly in the United States, given to girls more often than to boys.
American word names of this kind - elevated nouns used directly as personal names - became more visible over the course of the twentieth century, and Royalty fits that pattern rather than any older naming tradition tied to coronations, saints, or royal houses.
How Popular is the Name Royalty?
Royalty recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2019. Its best rank was #339 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #782 | 347 | 0.0216% |
| 2024 | #713 | 393 | 0.0244% |
| 2023 | #562 | 532 | 0.0332% |
| 2022 | #428 | 740 | 0.0452% |
| 2021 | #388 | 807 | 0.0492% |
| 2020 | #392 | 794 | 0.0491% |
| 2019 | #339 | 937 | 0.0559% |
| 2018 | #370 | 847 | 0.0498% |
| 2017 | #420 | 757 | 0.0439% |
| 2016 | #535 | 584 | 0.0330% |
| 2015 | #1,150 | 221 | 0.0124% |
| 2014 | #2,775 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 2013 | #3,561 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2012 | #5,084 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2011 | #5,179 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2010 | #5,940 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2009 | #7,015 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2008 | #7,680 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2007 | #10,026 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #11,253 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #10,765 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #14,944 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,928 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #3,435 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2023 | #3,049 | 41 | 0.0024% |
| 2022 | #2,821 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2021 | #3,408 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2020 | #2,651 | 48 | 0.0028% |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2018 | #2,468 | 53 | 0.0029% |
| 2017 | #2,833 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2016 | #2,977 | 40 | 0.0021% |
| 2015 | #3,571 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #4,370 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #7,455 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #6,950 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #7,404 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #8,660 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #9,695 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #14,200 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2006 | #11,763 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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