Given name & surname · also Spanish
Loyola
Loyola is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Loyola comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Loyola through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 617
- 0 boys · 617 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 321 as a first name in 2020; 3,541 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Loyola’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Loyola
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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