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Royale vs Royse

American parents have registered 1,608 Royales since 1880, against 36 Royses. Royale is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Royale against Royse, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Royale Royse

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 45 years in which either name was published, Royale for 42 years and Royse for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Royale Royse
Total US births 1,60836
Most in one year 1156
Babies in 2025 52under 5
Estimated living today 1,60020
Median age today 89
Peak year 20181930
Best rank 2,457th girls3,592nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,661stunranked
First recorded 19771930
Girls / boys 930 / 67810 / 26

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Royale and Royse.