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Roy
Pronounced /ˈɹoɪ̯/
Rank in 2024
#541
Born in 2024
552
Peak year
1947 · #48
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 552 boys were named Roy, about 1 in every 3,107.
- It peaked in 1947 with 7,560 babies, ranked #48.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 408,050 boys have been named Roy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Roy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 6.0Greatest1901–27
- 4.9Silent1928–45
- 3.0Boomers1946–64
- 1.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.6Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 100,975 babies, 6.04 per 1,000. Silent: 101,009 babies, 4.89 per 1,000. Boomers: 113,302 babies, 3.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 40,892 babies, 1.50 per 1,000. Millennials: 19,087 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,986 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,240 babies, 0.29 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From various sources: Anglo-Norman roy (“king”) a variant of Old French roi, from Latin rēx, rēgem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of Rey. Scottish Gaelic ruadh (“red, red-haired”) from Old Irish rúad, from Proto-Celtic *roudos from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-. Anglicisation of Bengali রায় (raẏ, surname). Doublet of Rai, rex, and rajah.
- (countable) A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
- Origin
- Scottish Gaelic
- Say it
- /ˈɹoɪ̯/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0.