Meaning not yet researched.
Loyal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 233 in 2025. Its best rank was #555 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #555 in 1890; #983 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Loyal in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#983 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #555.
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Loyal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 233 boys in 2025. Peak: #555 in 1890 · most boys in one year: 377 (2022).
In 2025, 233 US boys were named Loyal, making it the 983rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 104 places from #879 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 275 boys named Loyal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #555, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 377, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,030 in 2015 and #1,115 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loyal in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 6,439 US babies have been given the name, 7.8% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,001 babies named Loyal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,073 US boys were named Loyal; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 377. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,331 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Loyal ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #477 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Loel, Loyle and Lloyal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loel (289), Loyle (55), Lloyal (42), Lual (29), Loal (27), Loyall (10), Loyale (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Loyal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 23 | #477 | #1,175 |
| Maryland | 9 | #546 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #570 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #587 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #607 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #672 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #695 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #752 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #778 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #810 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #819 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #821 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #877 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #913 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #951 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,037 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,042 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,087 | #2,282 |
| New York | 11 | #1,091 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,114 | #1,986 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,838 | 233 | #983 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,170 | 275 | #879 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,810 | 356 | #740 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,867 | 377 | #700 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,909 | 336 | #754 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,661 | 190 | #1,055 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,546 | 106 | #1,579 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,927 | 71 | #2,038 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,194 | 72 | #1,992 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,931 | 57 | #2,323 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,056 | 71 | #2,030 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,854 | 62 | #2,194 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,246 | 44 | #2,693 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,930 | 43 | #2,801 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,212 | 37 | #3,086 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,625 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,381 | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,317 | 21 | #4,643 |
| 2007 | — | — | 22 | #4,452 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,974 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,950 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,680 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,365 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,026 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,274 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,170 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,442 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,638 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,839 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,655 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,390 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,072 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,188 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,718 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,188 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,260 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,704 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,987 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,335 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,746 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,839 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,369 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,960 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,265 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,411 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,035 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,887 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,011 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,048 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,599 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,516 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,285 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,694 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,269 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,839 |
| 1967 | — | — | 24 | #1,591 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,860 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,831 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,444 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,572 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,921 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,508 |
| 1959 | — | — | 30 | #1,455 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,814 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,615 |
| 1956 | — | — | 22 | #1,704 |
| 1955 | — | — | 25 | #1,562 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,546 |
| 1953 | — | — | 15 | #2,077 |
| 1952 | — | — | 28 | #1,448 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,582 |
| 1950 | — | — | 41 | #1,115 |
| 1949 | — | — | 25 | #1,486 |
| 1948 | — | — | 50 | #996 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #992 |
| 1946 | — | — | 47 | #996 |
| 1945 | — | — | 57 | #833 |
| 1944 | — | — | 50 | #901 |
| 1943 | — | — | 67 | #807 |
| 1942 | — | — | 55 | #896 |
| 1941 | — | — | 54 | #867 |
| 1940 | — | — | 45 | #959 |
| 1939 | — | — | 50 | #876 |
| 1938 | — | — | 52 | #865 |
| 1937 | — | — | 48 | #903 |
| 1936 | — | — | 64 | #763 |
| 1935 | — | — | 45 | #949 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,687 | 51 | #884 |
| 1933 | — | — | 60 | #797 |
| 1932 | — | — | 77 | #706 |
| 1931 | — | — | 85 | #645 |
| 1930 | — | — | 62 | #827 |
| 1929 | — | — | 68 | #784 |
| 1928 | — | — | 78 | #728 |
| 1927 | — | — | 75 | #759 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,615 | 74 | #747 |
| 1925 | — | — | 98 | #642 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,256 | 89 | #695 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,733 | 105 | #623 |
| 1922 | — | — | 85 | #711 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,874 | 85 | #713 |
| 1920 | — | — | 94 | #658 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,076 | 95 | #622 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,404 | 106 | #595 |
| 1917 | — | — | 74 | #709 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,764 | 77 | #678 |
| 1915 | — | — | 68 | #721 |
| 1914 | — | — | 71 | #602 |
| 1913 | — | — | 45 | #676 |
| 1912 | — | — | 44 | #631 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #962 |
| 1910 | — | — | 21 | #647 |
| 1909 | — | — | 17 | #667 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,077 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #844 |
| 1906 | — | — | 17 | #579 |
| 1905 | — | — | 9 | #886 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #792 |
| 1903 | — | — | 14 | #605 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #715 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #710 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,127 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,149 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #952 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #868 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,039 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #655 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,132 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #666 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #577 |
| 1890 | — | — | 13 | #555 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,034 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).