Meaning not yet researched.
Bruce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 558 in 2025. Its best rank was #25 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #25 in 1952; #536 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bruce in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#536 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #25.
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Bruce: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 558 boys in 2025. Peak: #25 in 1952 · most boys in one year: 14,660 (1956).
In 2025, 558 US boys were named Bruce, making it the 536th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 3 more than the 555 boys named Bruce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #25, reached in 1952. The most boys given the name in a single year was 14,660, in 1956. For comparison, it was #404 in 2015 and #26 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bruce in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 47 babies with the name. In all, 388,275 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 136,786 babies named Bruce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,984 US boys were named Bruce; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 722. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,061 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bruce ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #304 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bryce (127,695 babies since 1880), Brock (43,615 babies since 1880) and Broc (2,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bruk, Broch and Bruke 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bruk (135), Broch (30), Bruke (18).
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 Bruce in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 8 | #304 | — |
| Colorado | 19 | #332 | #558 |
| Utah | 12 | #382 | #401 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #399 | #450 |
| Alabama | 13 | #402 | #523 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #415 | #733 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #430 | #549 |
| California | 72 | #444 | #328 |
| Michigan | 19 | #448 | #455 |
| Washington | 16 | #451 | #334 |
| Virginia | 17 | #454 | #348 |
| Nevada | 6 | #454 | #512 |
| Arizona | 15 | #467 | #364 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #508 | #344 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #508 | #311 |
| Florida | 35 | #509 | #387 |
| Indiana | 13 | #514 | #324 |
| Missouri | 11 | #525 | #568 |
| Kansas | 6 | #534 | #397 |
| Ohio | 19 | #544 | #372 |
| New York | 29 | #547 | #366 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #553 | #389 |
| Texas | 57 | #555 | #427 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #557 | #481 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #575 | #462 |
| Illinois | 16 | #577 | #454 |
| Iowa | 5 | #588 | #582 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #684 | #493 |
| Georgia | 12 | #759 | #426 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #799 | #557 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 558 | #536 |
| 2024 | — | — | 555 | #536 |
| 2023 | — | — | 547 | #542 |
| 2022 | — | — | 526 | #563 |
| 2021 | — | — | 549 | #535 |
| 2020 | — | — | 587 | #498 |
| 2019 | — | — | 624 | #471 |
| 2018 | — | — | 614 | #473 |
| 2017 | — | — | 722 | #429 |
| 2016 | — | — | 702 | #441 |
| 2015 | — | — | 766 | #404 |
| 2014 | — | — | 773 | #401 |
| 2013 | — | — | 710 | #417 |
| 2012 | — | — | 668 | #422 |
| 2011 | — | — | 574 | #469 |
| 2010 | — | — | 485 | #533 |
| 2009 | — | — | 586 | #466 |
| 2008 | — | — | 581 | #478 |
| 2007 | — | — | 636 | #439 |
| 2006 | — | — | 550 | #481 |
| 2005 | — | — | 490 | #504 |
| 2004 | — | — | 532 | #474 |
| 2003 | — | — | 509 | #486 |
| 2002 | — | — | 510 | #467 |
| 2001 | — | — | 579 | #424 |
| 2000 | — | — | 563 | #432 |
| 1999 | — | — | 589 | #407 |
| 1998 | — | — | 652 | #383 |
| 1997 | — | — | 631 | #383 |
| 1996 | — | — | 663 | #364 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,736 | 665 | #362 |
| 1994 | — | — | 747 | #331 |
| 1993 | — | — | 822 | #321 |
| 1992 | — | — | 922 | #291 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,704 | 1,039 | #261 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,170 | #239 |
| 1989 | — | — | 1,212 | #222 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,542 | 1,286 | #205 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,091 | 1,304 | #199 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,846 | 1,348 | #189 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,653 | 1,412 | #183 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,359 | 1,460 | #175 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,865 | 1,439 | #178 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,952 | 1,588 | #169 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,225 | 1,634 | #164 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,347 | 1,650 | #157 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,459 | 1,712 | #152 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,962 | 1,701 | #151 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,967 | 1,700 | #148 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,828 | 1,689 | #148 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,021 | 1,789 | #140 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,248 | 1,854 | #136 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,993 | 1,914 | #134 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,913 | 2,313 | #121 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,073 | 2,973 | #108 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,733 | 3,482 | #94 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,213 | 4,041 | #72 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,302 | 4,486 | #61 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,879 | 5,067 | #55 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,063 | 5,843 | #53 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,302 | 6,325 | #50 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,920 | 7,890 | #46 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,066 | 9,275 | #43 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,120 | 10,038 | #41 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,155 | 10,705 | #40 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,982 | 10,972 | #39 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,824 | 11,914 | #38 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,822 | 12,472 | #36 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,958 | 13,882 | #34 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,872 | 14,660 | #33 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,844 | 14,082 | #32 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,743 | 14,155 | #30 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,787 | 14,048 | #28 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,785 | 14,480 | #25 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,613 | 14,090 | #26 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,838 | 12,674 | #26 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,633 | 12,265 | #26 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,905 | 11,065 | #28 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,953 | 10,524 | #29 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,238 | 8,459 | #32 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,348 | 5,615 | #48 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,105 | 5,262 | #51 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,955 | 5,431 | #51 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,125 | 5,385 | #50 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,416 | 4,302 | #51 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,044 | 3,789 | #55 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,472 | 3,233 | #64 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,031 | 3,127 | #66 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,208 | 2,810 | #70 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,887 | 2,630 | #73 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,184 | 2,447 | #77 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,302 | 2,401 | #78 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,561 | 2,037 | #91 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,514 | 1,935 | #98 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,005 | 1,787 | #101 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,210 | 1,712 | #109 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,600 | 1,618 | #112 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,908 | 1,628 | #112 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,570 | 1,459 | #123 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,074 | 1,413 | #127 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,085 | 1,354 | #130 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,994 | 1,311 | #133 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,603 | 1,224 | #135 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,987 | 1,106 | #142 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,649 | 1,070 | #146 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,021 | 996 | #149 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,664 | 880 | #151 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,699 | 988 | #146 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,161 | 805 | #156 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,041 | 740 | #162 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,479 | 663 | #172 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,930 | 530 | #169 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,873 | 390 | #175 |
| 1912 | — | — | 328 | #178 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,515 | 155 | #197 |
| 1910 | — | — | 98 | #239 |
| 1909 | — | — | 121 | #185 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,155 | 99 | #205 |
| 1907 | — | — | 89 | #213 |
| 1906 | — | — | 77 | #224 |
| 1905 | — | — | 85 | #205 |
| 1904 | — | — | 87 | #198 |
| 1903 | — | — | 67 | #220 |
| 1902 | — | — | 60 | #235 |
| 1901 | — | — | 65 | #211 |
| 1900 | — | — | 86 | #210 |
| 1899 | — | — | 66 | #200 |
| 1898 | — | — | 64 | #219 |
| 1897 | — | — | 58 | #224 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,435 | 69 | #217 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,624 | 65 | #213 |
| 1894 | — | — | 63 | #211 |
| 1893 | — | — | 64 | #212 |
| 1892 | — | — | 60 | #226 |
| 1891 | — | — | 50 | #227 |
| 1890 | — | — | 59 | #217 |
| 1889 | — | — | 62 | #206 |
| 1888 | — | — | 45 | #262 |
| 1887 | — | — | 44 | #241 |
| 1886 | — | — | 55 | #228 |
| 1885 | — | — | 56 | #213 |
| 1884 | — | — | 40 | #269 |
| 1883 | — | — | 50 | #216 |
| 1882 | — | — | 66 | #193 |
| 1881 | — | — | 34 | #270 |
| 1880 | — | — | 47 | #241 |
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).