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Loyalty

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
LOY-ul-tee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#1,833 for girls

Loyalty is a name of English origin, meaning “faithfulness”. In 2025 it ranked 1,833rd for girls in the US (109 babies).

What does Loyalty mean?

English: English virtue word

“faithfulness”

An English virtue name, from loyal, which comes via Old French from Latin legalis, lawful.

Is Loyalty a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Loyalty has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 109 girls and 23 boys in the US.

How popular is Loyalty in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,833among girls
Babies in 2025
109about 1 in 15,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 27% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 109 girls in the US were named Loyalty, making it the 1,833rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,132nd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 269 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004. 23 boys were also named Loyalty in 2025 (4,395th for boys).

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Loyalty than any year since 2015.

Half of all the girls named Loyalty in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 118 girls in the US were given Loyalty or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,509, up from #1,833 for this spelling alone.

In 2025, 83% of the babies named Loyalty in the US were girls.

2004Busiest: 269 in 20212025
Loyalty in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025109#1,833
2024150#1,457
2023228#1,085
2022246#1,039
2021269#965
2020211#1,132
2019243#1,054
2018215#1,135
2017155#1,451
2016138#1,598
201599#1,996
201472#2,497
201356#2,972
201239#3,914
201132#4,465
201015#7,877
200928#5,096
20089#11,594
20076#15,485
20060–
20059#10,915
20045#16,092

Names like Loyalty

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Loyalty

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Loyalty: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/loyalty, updated 20 October 2026.