In 2025, 76 US girls were named Roya, making it the 2,379th most common girls’ name of the year, up 389 places from #2,768 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 62 girls named Roya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,379, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #3,292 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roya in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 1,623 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 392 babies named Roya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 549 US girls were named Roya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,148 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Roya ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #670 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Roy (411,331 babies since 1880).