Loyce
Feminine
Loyce is given to both — 3,503 girls and 775 boys since 1880. See Loyce as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Loyce is spelled the way a whole set of American names is spelled: with an oy where other spellings would put an oi or an ou. It sits with Loyd, Royce, Boyce and Joyce, and like them it can be traced back to more than one longer name.
How old is the name Loyce?
Loyce first appears in US birth records in 1901 — 124 years ago. The typical Loyce alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 1,300 people named Loyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Loyce most popular?
Loyce peaked in 1933, reaching #633 nationally. See the whole 1933 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lois to Loyce
The story of Loyce
The oy spelling is the tell. American records, particularly southern ones, carry a group of names in which a diphthong that other traditions write as oi or oy is consistently written with the y: Loyd for Lloyd, Boyce, Royce, Joyce, Loyce. Some of these are surnames moved forward, some are respellings of older given names, and the group behaves as a set — families who used one often used another. Loyce is the least traceable member. It stands for Lois in some households and for Louise in others, it was given to boys and girls alike, and by the time it reaches a modern reader the two lines are impossible to separate.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name may descend from Lois, which appears once in the New Testament, or from Louise by way of the French Loise, and different families used it for both. Nothing on a certificate distinguishes them.
How the name formed
- Lois
- Loyce
Pronouncing Loyce
LOYSS
One syllable, rhyming with voice. Some families give it two, LOY-iss, following Lois, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Loyce
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
- 1901
- Most girls named
- 193298 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #633reached in 1933
- Change vs 1979
- +40.0%7 in 1981, from 5
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.
Loyces among us
people named Loyce are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Loyce sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- One syllable and five letters, with no sound an English speaker has to learn.
- It works in front of long surnames, where fuller names get crowded.
- It is genuinely uncommon while remaining entirely readable.
- Lois, Loice and Loyce are all in the record and will be written for you in turn.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
- Its parentage is honestly unsettled, so a family cannot be told which name is theirs.
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Frequently asked
- How many Loyces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Loyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Loyce in 2025?
- Loyce is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Loyce with classmates?
- Loyce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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