Brice
Masculine
Brice is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 15,737 boys against 379 girls since 1880.
Brice comes from a fifth-century bishop of Tours with a difficult reputation and a long afterlife. The name is Gaulish rather than Latin, which is why nobody has ever quite settled what it means.
How old is the name Brice?
Brice first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Brice alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 14,000 people named Brice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Brice most popular?
Brice peaked in 1988, reaching #459 nationally. Today it ranks #2941, 2,482 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Brictius to Brice
The story of Brice
Brictius was a pupil of Martin of Tours who succeeded him as bishop and, by the accounts that survive, was disliked for a long stretch before being reconciled and eventually venerated. His feast on the thirteenth of November kept the name alive across France and, after the Norman conquest, in England and Scotland, where it settled particularly well and produced the surname Bryce. It reached America and has been in steady if never heavy use, spelled Brice and Bryce roughly equally.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Bricius or Brictius is a Gaulish name Latinized, and Gaulish is thinly recorded — most of what is known comes from inscriptions and place-names. A Celtic element meaning high or noble has been proposed, and so has one meaning speckled or freckled. Neither is established. What is documented is that the name is Celtic rather than Latin, and older than the saint who carried it.
How the name formed
- Brictius
- Brice
Related forms: Brice · Bryce · Bricius
Pronouncing Brice
BRYSS
One syllable, rhyming with nice. French says it much the same way with a lighter final s. There is no ambiguity in the sound at all.
Nicknames for Brice
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most boys named
- 1989398 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #459reached in 1988
- Change vs 2022
- −39.1%42 in 2025, from 69
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Brice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Brice in French — same name
- Bryce in English — spelling variant
- Bricius in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Ohio.
Brices among us
people named Brice are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 40,668 born in 2025 was named Brice
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Brice
- #2941
- Brice on the 2025 chart
- #328
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Brice went to 42 boys in 2025, but Bryce is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 961, which makes it the 328th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,613 places above the chart.
- Bryce919
- Brice42
About 1 boy in 1,777 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 40,668 for Brice itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Domingo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Brice's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Domingo climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Domingo's path sketches the road Brice is walking now.
Brice sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Brice is headed
Brice is easing off slowly — about 29% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Brice beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Brice in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, said correctly by everyone at first sight.
- A documented saint and a genuinely old Celtic origin behind it.
- Short and clean, which pairs well with a longer surname.
- Brice and Bryce are both in use and the spelling gets asked for every time.
- Its meaning is genuinely unknown, so any gloss offered is a guess among two.
- One syllable leaves nothing to shorten and no longer form to grow into.
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Frequently asked
- How many Brices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,000 people named Brice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Brice?
- Brice is one of 2 recorded spellings. Bryce is the more common one — 919 births in 2025 against 42 for Brice.
- How popular is the name Brice in 2025?
- Brice ranks #2941 among US boy names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Brice?
- About 1 in every 40,668 US boys born in 2025 was named Brice — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Brice with classmates?
- Brice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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