RoyD
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A forest clearing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɔɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
RoyD is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 6.3Kas Roy(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.6Kas Roe
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.8Kas Roe
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than RoyD itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 464 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
53,159 named Roy, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Roy
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Roe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Roy in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A forest clearing.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
RoyD counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 53,159as Roy | 1 in 6.3K | 176K | Roe | 464 |
| IN India | — | 37,509as Roy | 1 in 35K | 38K | Roy | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | #719 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 11K | Roe | 208 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Roe | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 10 | Roe | 130 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 62 | Roe | 146 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,041as Roy | 1 in 8.1K | 1K | Roe | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #557 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Roe | 73 |
53,159 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling roy. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
RoyD is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, second-person singular informal of roish. before you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Royd Thorntonb. 1925NZNew Zealand soil scientist
- Royd Chambersb. 1961USAmerican politician
- Royd Andersonb. 1972USCuban-American filmmaker and historian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 145 | #46,195 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name RoyD mean, and where does it come from?
- A forest clearing. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce RoyD?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɔɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is RoyD a male or female name?
- RoyD is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does RoyD have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Roy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is RoyD most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling RoyD itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people named Roy.
- How common is the name RoyD?
- In the United States, the national register counted 53,159 people named Roy in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is RoyD compared with other names?
- In Ireland, RoyD is the 557th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roydThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “RoyD” — the 557th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.