Royce

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Royce: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Royce: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #404, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#404highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#2022
1998	#2419
1999	#2425
2000	#1703
2001	#3134
2003	#3467
2004	#3009
2005	#2754
2006	#2538
2007	#3095
2008	#3158
2010	#3865
2011	#4647
2012	#3987
2013	#2055
2014	#2248
2015	#2707
2016	#1627
2017	#2052
2018	#1875
2019	#2104
2020	#1192
2021	#2125
2022	#1534
2023	#1108
2024	#2088

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #2088 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2024
Highest recorded position: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2022–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2088 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Royce appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 225 births with the name.

Royce across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Royce's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1108 (2023)	#2088 (2024)	27 of 29	225 (1996–2024)	26 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#414 (2022)	#404 (2024)	#404 (2024)	2 of 3	6 (2022–2024)	3 (2022)

Royce by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Royce in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	38	8 of 10	5
2010s	85	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	85	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Royce appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Royce's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1192	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #404, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aydin · #404, 29y
Seb · #404, 24y
Zaid · #404, 30y
Codey · #403, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Albi · #404, 26y
Augustus · #404, 29y
Aydin · #404, 29y
Blayne · #404, 23y

Royce was ranked #404 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Royce and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Royce without appearing here.

Royce moved ahead of

Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2707 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1627 and #4810.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3158 and #2775 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2055 and #4685.
Graeme Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4647 and #4647 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.
Jade Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3865 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.

Moved ahead of Royce

Hudson Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1703 and #1889 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1202.
Theodor Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2538 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #3095 and #1440.
Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1703 and #2142 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1108 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #1132.

Moved the opposite way to Royce

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Royce went from #2357 to #1108 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Royce went from #2357 to #1108 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Royce went from #2357 to #1108 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Royce went from #2022 to #1108 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.

Moved the same way as Royce

Gunnar Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royce went from #3865 to #2088 and Gunnar from #4678 to #2443.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Royce

Royce at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Royce across 2 official records

Royce by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Royce across 2 official records

Royce by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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