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Loyalty

Loyalty: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“faithfulness”
Origin
English
Say it
LOY-uhl-tee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls (84% of all uses)

Loyalty is an English word-name from loyalty 'faithfulness, fidelity', ultimately from Old French loialté. As a given name it belongs to the modern virtue-name tradition.

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How popular is Loyalty?

202459.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Loyalty in 2024195

2024 rank#1,462 girls

Peak year2021

Total US babies since 18802,642

Loyalty is rising: use over the last five years is 4.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Loyalty

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Loyalty questions

What does the name Loyalty mean?

Loyalty means "faithfulness". It comes from English. Loyalty is an English word-name from loyalty 'faithfulness, fidelity', ultimately from Old French loialté. As a given name it belongs to the modern virtue-name tradition.

Is Loyalty a boy or girl name?

Loyalty is mainly a girl's name in US records (84% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Loyalty?

195 US babies were named Loyalty in 2024. Its peak year was 2021.

How do you pronounce Loyalty?

Loyalty is usually pronounced LOY-uhl-tee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.