as a First Name
Originally a Scottish name, representing an Anglicized spelling of the Gaelic nickname Ruadh ‘red’. It has since spread to other parts of the English-speaking world, where it is often reanalysed as Old French roy ‘king’ (compare Leroy).
| 213th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 289,533
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 371,377
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Roy per capita
- 1918
- marked the height of its popularity
0.07%
99.93%
59%
55+
55+
31%
30-54
30-54
6%
13-29
13-29
4%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
