Meaning not yet researched.
Boyce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #529 in 1938.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #529 in 1938; #9,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Boyce in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,038 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1938, at #529.
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Boyce: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #529 in 1938 · most boys in one year: 121 (1938).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Boyce, making it the 9,038th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,710 places from #7,328 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 boys named Boyce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #529, reached in 1938. That year also had the most boys given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #7,561 in 2015 and #827 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Boyce in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 5,576 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 1,049 babies named Boyce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US boys were named Boyce; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Boice are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Boice (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Boyce in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,038 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,328 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,033 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #9,978 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,594 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,592 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,240 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,136 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,130 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,407 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,561 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,689 |
| 2013 | — | — | 14 | #5,959 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,237 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,074 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #9,826 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,235 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #5,948 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #6,971 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,242 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #7,931 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,767 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,511 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,809 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,958 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,035 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,268 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,034 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,307 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,829 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,378 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,770 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,514 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,484 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,636 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,371 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,849 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,162 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,727 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,972 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,281 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,607 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,238 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,117 |
| 1979 | — | — | 29 | #1,873 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,386 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,674 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,883 |
| 1975 | — | — | 23 | #2,010 |
| 1974 | — | — | 24 | #1,890 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,134 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,773 |
| 1971 | — | — | 44 | #1,255 |
| 1970 | — | — | 27 | #1,659 |
| 1969 | — | — | 39 | #1,266 |
| 1968 | — | — | 41 | #1,187 |
| 1967 | — | — | 32 | #1,343 |
| 1966 | — | — | 43 | #1,132 |
| 1965 | — | — | 54 | #1,001 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,128 |
| 1963 | — | — | 46 | #1,139 |
| 1962 | — | — | 56 | #1,024 |
| 1961 | — | — | 62 | #981 |
| 1960 | — | — | 62 | #964 |
| 1959 | — | — | 57 | #1,020 |
| 1958 | — | — | 50 | #1,081 |
| 1957 | — | — | 71 | #899 |
| 1956 | — | — | 80 | #834 |
| 1955 | — | — | 81 | #813 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,822 | 71 | #870 |
| 1953 | — | — | 79 | #807 |
| 1952 | — | — | 70 | #837 |
| 1951 | — | — | 80 | #786 |
| 1950 | — | — | 68 | #827 |
| 1949 | — | — | 99 | #687 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,722 | 85 | #729 |
| 1947 | — | — | 82 | #758 |
| 1946 | — | — | 88 | #689 |
| 1945 | — | — | 86 | #651 |
| 1944 | — | — | 85 | #674 |
| 1943 | — | — | 96 | #650 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,698 | 88 | #684 |
| 1941 | — | — | 93 | #630 |
| 1940 | — | — | 102 | #585 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,328 | 95 | #596 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,414 | 121 | #529 |
| 1937 | — | — | 100 | #575 |
| 1936 | — | — | 92 | #609 |
| 1935 | — | — | 89 | #624 |
| 1934 | — | — | 121 | #535 |
| 1933 | — | — | 103 | #567 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,495 | 109 | #565 |
| 1931 | — | — | 117 | #539 |
| 1930 | — | — | 87 | #667 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,649 | 97 | #616 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,251 | 93 | #648 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,367 | 73 | #767 |
| 1926 | — | — | 99 | #632 |
| 1925 | — | — | 100 | #636 |
| 1924 | — | — | 99 | #643 |
| 1923 | — | — | 90 | #675 |
| 1922 | — | — | 103 | #637 |
| 1921 | — | — | 83 | #722 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,077 | 69 | #805 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,919 | 66 | #800 |
| 1918 | — | — | 73 | #754 |
| 1917 | — | — | 71 | #739 |
| 1916 | — | — | 71 | #710 |
| 1915 | — | — | 70 | #698 |
| 1914 | — | — | 54 | #698 |
| 1913 | — | — | 47 | #650 |
| 1912 | — | — | 27 | #858 |
| 1911 | — | — | 21 | #691 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #823 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #683 |
| 1908 | — | — | 11 | #832 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #671 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,019 |
| 1905 | — | — | 9 | #845 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,151 |
| 1901 | — | — | 9 | #735 |
| 1900 | — | — | 18 | #583 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,066 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #750 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #956 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #833 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,100 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #776 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #953 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).