Royal

maleStatistical record

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

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

Royal: Recorded every year since 2013, its highest recorded position is #1,951, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#1951highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#5785
2018	#3178
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2023	#5687
2024	#3015

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2013 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2013–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2013
First recorded at #4685 among boys in England and Wales in 2013 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2013–2024
Highest recorded position: #1951 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2013–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Royal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2013, and has registered 94 births with the name.

Royal 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.

Royal'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	#4685 (2013)	#1951 (2024)	#1951 (2024)	12 of 12	94 (2013–2024)	12 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2016)	#3015 (2024)	#3015 (2024)	7 of 9	33 (2016–2024)	8 (2024)

Royal appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1951 in England and Wales in 2024.

Royal'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	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2013 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,951, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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 1 registrar, 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.

Adhvik · #1951, 10y
Adonay · #1951, 13y
Akorede · #1951, 10y
Dominion · #1951, 9y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Adhvik · #1951, 10y
Akorede · #1951, 10y
Renly · #1951, 10y
Vedansh · #1951, 10y

Royal 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 Royal without appearing here.

Royal moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #5119.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.

Moved the opposite way to Royal

Aaron Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 while Aaron went from #81 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 while Alan went from #185 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 while Alex went from #65 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 while Alexander went from #24 to #36.

Moved the same way as Royal

Aksel Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 and Aksel from #2403 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 and Albie from #139 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 and Alfred from #136 to #81.
Andrea Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Royal went from #4685 to #1951 and Andrea from #3315 to #1859.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1951 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Royal

Royal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Royal across 2 official records

Royal appears in

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Royal and the names beside it

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Royal at a glance

Royal across 2 official records

Royal appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Royal and the names beside it

Royal moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Royal

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