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Roya vs Royden

American parents have registered 1,623 Royas since 1880, against 879 Roydens. Roya is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Roya against Royden, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Roya Royden

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 113 years in which either name was published, Royden for 57 years and Roya for 56 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Roya Royden
Total US births 1,623879
Most in one year 7621
Babies in 2025 76under 5
Estimated living today 1,600400
Median age today 1851
Peak year 20251918
Best rank 2,368th girls1,648th boys
Rank in 2025 2,368thunranked
First recorded 19551900
Girls / boys 1,623 / 00 / 879

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 Roydens alive today are over 51; half the Royas are over 18. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Roya and Royden.