Loyal vs Loyalty
American parents have registered 6,439 Loyals since 1880, against 2,776 Loyaltys. Loyal is still ahead, with 254 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Loyal Loyalty
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Loyal for 124 years and Loyalty for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
Side by side
| Loyal | Loyalty | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,439 | 2,776 |
| Most in one year | 416 | 314 |
| Babies in 2025 | 254 | 132 |
| Estimated living today | 3,800 | 2,800 |
| Median age today | 5 | 5 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2021 |
| Best rank | 700th boys | 965th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 980th | 1,833rd |
| First recorded | 1882 | 2004 |
| Girls / boys | 500 / 5,939 | 2,334 / 442 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Loyal Oklahoma (2.9×), Georgia (2.7×), Kansas (2.3×)
- Loyalty Georgia (3.3×), Louisiana (2.6×), North Carolina (2.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Loyal and Loyalty.