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royal Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Royle.
  2. Americanized form of German Reul or Reule.
  3. Possibly also an Americanized form of Spanish and Portuguese Real.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of royal Families in the US in 1920
Number of royal families
 93-184
 32-92		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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