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How popular is “Royal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Royal” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Royal” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Royal” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Royal” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Royal” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Royal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Royal” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 26 0.000129042 26 -100%
1881 20 0.000103795 20 -100%
1882 27 0.000121878 27 -100%
1883 21 0.000096798 21 -100%
1884 32 0.000131438 32 -100%
1885 28 0.000116253 28 -100%
1886 19 0.000074418 19 -100%
1887 24 0.000097012 24 -100%
1888 40 0.000133568 40 -100%
1889 37 0.000128052 37 -100%
1890 31 0.000102853 31 -100%
1891 33 0.000115114 33 -100%
1892 42 0.000125608 42 -100%
1893 38 0.000116843 38 -100%
1894 23 0.000067909 23 -100%
1895 32 0.000091163 32 -100%
1896 26 0.000072731 26 -100%
1897 20 0.000057644 20 -100%
1898 26 0.00006816 26 -100%
1899 28 0.000082539 28 -100%
1900 25 0.000055524 25 -100%
1901 23 0.00006651 23 -100%
1902 31 0.000080159 31 -100%
1903 28 0.000073452 28 -100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 -100%
1905 30 0.000070768 30 -100%
1906 38 0.000088692 38 -100%
1907 28 0.000060165 28 -100%
1908 38 0.000077765 38 -100%
1909 41 0.0000802 41 -100%
1910 44 0.000074487 44 -100%
1911 36 0.000055877 36 -100%
1912 100 0.000101208 100 -100%
1913 91 0.000080027 91 -100%
1914 125 0.000088255 125 -100%
1915 157 0.000085679 157 -100%
1916 174 0.00008995 174 -100%
1917 186 0.000092687 186 -100%
1918 223 0.000102712 223 -100%
1919 202 0.000095723 202 -100%
1920 200 0.000088392 200 -100%
1921 191 0.000081816 191 -100%
1922 228 0.0000996 228 -100%
1923 226 0.000098155 226 -100%
1924 214 0.000089855 214 -100%
1925 200 0.000085715 200 -100%
1926 181 0.000078836 181 -100%
1927 196 0.000084506 196 -100%
1928 190 0.000084036 8 182 -92%
1929 217 0.000098989 5 212 -95%
1930 158 0.000071066 158 -100%
1931 158 0.000075081 10 148 -87%
1932 149 0.000070573 149 -100%
1933 152 0.000076021 7 145 -91%
1934 127 0.000061151 127 -100%
1935 123 0.000058854 123 -100%
1936 128 0.00006161 128 -100%
1937 136 0.00006383 5 131 -93%
1938 134 0.000060563 134 -100%
1939 112 0.00005083 112 -100%
1940 127 0.000055153 127 -100%
1941 108 0.000044327 108 -100%
1942 124 0.000045391 124 -100%
1943 122 0.000043223 122 -100%
1944 135 0.000050184 135 -100%
1945 150 0.000056542 6 144 -92%
1946 127 0.000039746 7 120 -89%
1947 160 0.000044416 6 154 -93%
1948 131 0.000037943 5 126 -92%
1949 129 0.000037018 129 -100%
1950 112 0.000031969 112 -100%
1951 134 0.000036376 134 -100%
1952 104 0.000027383 104 -100%
1953 118 0.00003062 118 -100%
1954 115 0.000028889 5 110 -91%
1955 110 0.000027397 6 104 -89%
1956 130 0.00003153 130 -100%
1957 100 0.000023797 100 -100%
1958 72 0.000017417 7 65 -81%
1959 91 0.000021886 91 -100%
1960 95 0.000022871 95 -100%
1961 90 0.000021727 90 -100%
1962 79 0.000019577 79 -100%
1963 69 0.000017432 69 -100%
1964 78 0.000020064 78 -100%
1965 83 0.000022894 5 78 -88%
1966 66 0.000018989 66 -100%
1967 67 0.000019736 67 -100%
1968 49 0.000014504 49 -100%
1969 64 0.000018416 64 -100%
1970 73 0.000020241 73 -100%
1971 67 0.00001952 67 -100%
1972 65 0.000020681 6 59 -82%
1973 50 0.000016573 50 -100%
1974 49 0.000016118 49 -100%
1975 46 0.000015235 46 -100%
1976 57 0.000018785 8 49 -72%
1977 58 0.000018259 6 52 -79%
1978 66 0.000020795 6 60 -82%
1979 63 0.000018936 7 56 -78%
1980 64 0.00001858 12 52 -63%
1981 58 0.000016766 9 49 -69%
1982 55 0.000015679 55 -100%
1983 64 0.000018479 6 58 -81%
1984 49 0.000014045 8 41 -67%
1985 57 0.00001597 5 52 -82%
1986 48 0.000013494 48 -100%
1987 47 0.000013035 5 42 -79%
1988 61 0.000016509 6 55 -80%
1989 50 0.000013006 6 44 -76%
1990 76 0.000019228 10 66 -74%
1991 60 0.000015403 8 52 -73%
1992 50 0.000013017 7 43 -72%
1993 61 0.000016179 11 50 -64%
1994 61 0.000016408 9 52 -70%
1995 49 0.00001338 7 42 -71%
1996 60 0.000016451 11 49 -63%
1997 53 0.000014618 6 47 -77%
1998 61 0.000016584 9 52 -70%
1999 57 0.000015431 8 49 -72%
2000 61 0.000016138 11 50 -64%
2001 64 0.000017097 7 57 -78%
2002 62 0.000016585 9 53 -71%
2003 60 0.00001578 7 53 -77%
2004 75 0.000019629 14 61 -63%
2005 74 0.000019247 6 68 -84%
2006 85 0.000021485 10 75 -76%
2007 129 0.000032269 14 115 -78%
2008 124 0.000031547 14 110 -77%
2009 147 0.00003848 25 122 -66%
2010 163 0.000044105 18 145 -78%
2011 183 0.00005003 35 148 -62%
2012 225 0.00006152 32 193 -72%
2013 293 0.000080369 59 234 -60%
2014 744 0.000200735 255 489 -31%
2015 1028 0.000277769 380 648 -26%
2016 1138 0.000310192 476 662 -16%
2017 993 0.000277669 417 576 -16%
2018 951 0.000270486 341 610 -28%
2019 1004 0.000289259 351 653 -30%
2020 1090 0.000326291 352 738 -35%
2021 1213 0.000358034 329 884 -46%
2022 1200 0.000354701 322 878 -46%
2023 1050 0.000317106 256 794 -51%
2024 930 0.000279405 192 738 -59%

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