Boy · #525 in 2025

Roy

Roy: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#525
Born 2025
570
Peak year
1897

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Roy per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1897. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Roy has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 4% of its 1897 peak.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.