Given name & surname · also Celtic
Bryce
Bryce is a masculine given name from Celtic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Bryce comes from Celtic, and ultimately from Celtic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bryce through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 127,695
- 124,103 boys · 3,592 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 4,437 babies
- 2025
- 995
- #357 for boys · #2,369 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 919 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 357 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 44.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 4,319 in 2000. It also appeared in 76 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (85). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 107,825 as a first name in 2020; 4,689 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.
Bryce’s family of names
In English usage, Bryce has a related form in Brice. In English usage, Bryce has a conventional equivalent in the French form Brice. In English usage, Bryce has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brictius.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bryce has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Celtic roots to each of them.
10 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Bruceequivalent
- Bricioequivalent
- Brizioequivalent
- Britoequivalent
- 布賴斯borrowing · Chinese
- 布萊斯borrowing · Chinese
- Brizequivalent
- ไบรซ์Thai
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People named Bryce
- Bryce Dallas HowardAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1981)
- Bryce DeWittAmerican physicist (1923–2004)
- Bryce JohnsonAmerican actorborn 1977
- Bryce HarperAmerican professional baseball playerborn 1992
- Bryce DeadmonAmerican sprinterborn 1997
- Bryce HoppelAmerican middle-distance runnerborn 1997
- Bryce DavisonAmerican-Canadian pair skaterborn 1986
- Bryce CourtenayAustralian novelist (1933–2012)
- Bryce CottonAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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