Loyal vs Loyce

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Loyal Loyce

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 133 years in which either name was published, Loyal for 79 years and Loyce for 54 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

• 1882–1906 Loyal ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1907–1909 Loyce ahead
• 1912–1919 Loyal ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1920–1962 Loyce ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1963–1965 Loyal ahead
• 1968–1972 Loyce ahead
• 1973–2025 Loyal ahead

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Loyces alive today are over 76; half the Loyals are over 5. That is 71 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Loyal Oklahoma (2.9×), Georgia (2.7×), Kansas (2.3×)
• Loyce Oklahoma (9.2×), Louisiana (7.9×), Texas (6.0×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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