Royel
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ROY-ul
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Royel is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “royal, kingly”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Royel mean?
English: variant of the word name Royal
“royal, kingly”
A spelling of Royal, from Old French roial and ultimately Latin regalis 'kingly'.
Is Royel a girl's or a boy's name?
Royel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Royel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Royel, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Royel in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 647 boys in the US were given Royel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #475, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
- Royal 640
- Royel 7
Royel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
Nicknames for Royel
- Roy 48 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Royel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rhodes Ledger Riggs Ares Sevyn Archer Legend Wylder Truce Aziel Brixton Brewer
Other spellings of Royel
Names related to Royel
More English names
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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, “Royel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/royel, updated 20 October 2026.