Bryce
Masculine
Bryce is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 124,103 boys against 3,592 girls since 1880. See Bryce as a girl name
Bryce is the Scottish spelling of a name carried by a fifth-century bishop of Tours, and it has been passing between surname and first name ever since. One syllable, ending on that clean -ice, it lands with the same short snap as price and ice. It has been on American records since the early twentieth century and has never once dropped off.
How old is the name Bryce?
Bryce first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Bryce alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 119,000 people named Bryce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bryce most popular?
Bryce peaked in 2000, reaching #92 nationally. Today it ranks #357, 265 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
Where it comes from
From Bricius to Bryce
The story of Bryce
Saint Brice of Tours gave the name its start; his cult spread widely enough through medieval Europe that Brice turned up across France and England as an ordinary baptismal name. From there it hardened into a family name, and in Scotland and northern England it settled into the spelling Bryce. Scottish emigration carried it to North America as a surname first — Bryce Canyon in Utah takes its name from Ebenezer Bryce, the Scottish-born settler who ranched below those rock spires. The American habit of promoting surnames back into first names did the rest, and Bryce has been given to boys here since the early twentieth century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name reached English through Latin Bricius, borne by Saint Brice of Tours, who succeeded Saint Martin as bishop there in the fifth century. Bricius is Gaulish, and no reading of it has ever been settled — Celtic roots meaning 'speckled' and 'high, noble' have both been proposed, and neither has carried the day. What is documented is the man, the see, and the long life of the name after him.
How the name formed
- Bricius
- Brice
- Bryce
Related forms: Brice · Brice · Bricius · Bricio · Brizio
Pronouncing Bryce
BRYSE
One syllable, rhyming with price. The final -ce is an s sound, never a k or a ch.
Nicknames for Bryce
Moderate
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
- 1908
- Most boys named
- 20014,150 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #92reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- −32.1%919 in 2025, from 1,353
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.
Bryce in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Brice in French — same name
- Brice in English — spelling variant
- Bricius in Latin — same name
- Bricio in Spanish — same name
- Brizio in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Bryces among us
people named Bryce are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 1,859 born in 2025 was named Bryce
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jerome test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bryce's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jerome climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jerome's path sketches the road Bryce is walking now.
Bryce is coming down from a big peak (#92 in 2000). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Bryce is headed
Bryce is easing off slowly — about 17% 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.
Bryce beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bryce in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, one clear sound — no stress to explain, no silent letters, and nothing to correct on a first introduction.
- A documented line back to a fifth-century bishop of Tours, which is a longer record than most surname-style first names can show.
- Works as both a given name and a family name, so it sits comfortably in a full name of any length.
- Related forms exist across French, Spanish and Italian, so the name is not a puzzle outside English.
- Brice is the older spelling and still in use, so expect to spell it out now and then. Bryson, Bryan and Bryant are close enough in sound that mishearing happens too.
- The -ce ending makes the possessive awkward in writing: Bryce's is fine, but plenty of people will hesitate over it, and rhymes with mice, twice and ice are the obvious playground material.
- It rose fast enough in the surname-name wave that it reads as distinctly modern American rather than old-fashioned — an advantage or not, depending on what you want the name to signal alongside a sibling's.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bryces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 119,000 people named Bryce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bryce in 2025?
- Bryce ranks #357 among US boy names in 2025, with 919 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bryce?
- About 1 in every 1,859 US boys born in 2025 was named Bryce — 919 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bryce with classmates?
- Bryce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Bryce
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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