About the name Loyal
Loyal belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Loyal first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #555 in 1890, and in 2024 274 babies received the name — 5,705 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.