Royce
About 35,662 American babies have been named Royce since 1892, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 499th. About 25,000 Royces are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Royce boys named Royce
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,662
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 392nd
- Rank in 2025
- 499th
- First recorded
- 1892
- Girls / boys
- 2,508 / 33,154
How old the living Royces are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,662 babies given the name since 1892, about 25,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 5,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Derived from the Middle English given name Rose. See English Rose.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Royces
- Royce da 5'9" (born 1977)American rapper
- Prince Royce (born 1989)American singer
- Royce Gracie (born 1966)Brazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Royce D. Applegate (1939–2003)American actor
- Royce O'Neale (born 1993)American basketball player
- Royce White (born 1991)American basketball player
People named Royce with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Royce is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Royce is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.0×), Texas (2.7×), Oklahoma (2.7×), Arkansas (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Royce peaked:
Royce elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Royce | 246 | 1,108th |
| France boys | Royce | 35 | 6,447th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Royce | 6 | 404th |
| Ireland boys | Royce | 3 | 755th |
| Scotland boys | Royce | 3 | 686th |
| Poland boys | Royce | 2 birth registrations | 705th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Royce among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Royce | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Royce against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.