Meaning not yet researched.
Bryce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 919 in 2025. Its best rank was #92 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #92 in 2001; #357 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Bryce in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#357 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #92.
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Bryce: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 919 boys in 2025. Peak: #92 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 4,319 (2000).
In 2025, 919 US boys were named Bryce, making it the 357th most common boys’ name of the year, down 61 places from #296 in 2024. That is 213 fewer than the 1,132 boys named Bryce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #92, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,319, in 2000. For comparison, it was #131 in 2015 and #617 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryce in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 5 babies. In all, 127,695 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 40,911 babies named Bryce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,124 US boys were named Bryce; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,843. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bryce ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #162 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bruce (388,275 babies since 1880), Brice (16,116 babies since 1880) and Breck (3,092 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brick, Breece and Bric 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brick (459), Breece (167), Bric (28), Brec (12), Bryice (5).
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 Bryce 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 9 | #162 | #80 |
| Delaware | 6 | #172 | #65 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #204 | #106 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #222 | #104 |
| Maryland | 24 | #234 | #76 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #236 | #83 |
| Florida | 85 | #242 | #106 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #255 | #89 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #255 | #127 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #261 | #99 |
| Michigan | 36 | #276 | #85 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #286 | #133 |
| Virginia | 29 | #290 | #76 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #290 | #116 |
| New York | 61 | #301 | #119 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #314 | #159 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #322 | #103 |
| Georgia | 37 | #328 | #102 |
| Washington | 20 | #367 | #275 |
| Utah | 12 | #383 | #292 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #385 | #133 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #388 | #159 |
| Missouri | 16 | #395 | #121 |
| Ohio | 27 | #397 | #104 |
| Iowa | 8 | #405 | #122 |
| Indiana | 17 | #415 | #149 |
| Illinois | 26 | #418 | #138 |
| California | 76 | #423 | #205 |
| Alabama | 11 | #452 | #144 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #487 | #164 |
| Texas | 68 | #494 | #192 |
| Nevada | 5 | #523 | #178 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #529 | #114 |
| Colorado | 10 | #542 | #220 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #564 | #134 |
| Oregon | 5 | #626 | #256 |
| Arizona | 10 | #644 | #214 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,369 | 919 | #357 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,536 | 1,132 | #296 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,499 | 1,353 | #258 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,468 | 1,302 | #265 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,755 | 1,423 | #250 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,635 | 1,570 | #234 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,201 | 1,942 | #203 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,535 | 2,244 | #175 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,167 | 2,396 | #166 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,520 | 2,843 | #147 |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,324 | 3,131 | #131 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,620 | 3,118 | #131 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,192 | 3,353 | #117 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,102 | 3,184 | #117 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,782 | 3,360 | #114 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,431 | 3,470 | #112 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,065 | 3,711 | #111 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,274 | 3,662 | #117 |
| 2007 | 116 | #1,830 | 3,939 | #111 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,798 | 3,974 | #109 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,856 | 3,904 | #109 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,748 | 4,024 | #108 |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,093 | 4,127 | #103 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,161 | 4,068 | #97 |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,509 | 4,150 | #92 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,533 | 4,319 | #92 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,285 | 4,148 | #93 |
| 1998 | 163 | #1,157 | 4,053 | #94 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,400 | 3,352 | #112 |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,415 | 3,090 | #120 |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,191 | 2,420 | #145 |
| 1994 | 138 | #1,247 | 2,341 | #150 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,904 | 1,971 | #163 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,102 | 1,830 | #175 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,354 | 1,732 | #183 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,443 | 1,818 | #169 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,580 | 1,635 | #181 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,320 | 1,586 | #179 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,633 | 1,354 | #195 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,660 | 1,218 | #201 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,258 | 984 | #236 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,179 | 838 | #257 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,309 | 708 | #287 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,187 | 635 | #311 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,262 | 663 | #296 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,348 | 658 | #302 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,130 | 536 | #338 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,965 | 521 | #337 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,408 | 524 | #341 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,688 | 447 | #361 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,573 | 474 | #354 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,396 | 397 | #388 |
| 1973 | — | — | 404 | #383 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,523 | 466 | #360 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,462 | 263 | #502 |
| 1970 | — | — | 275 | #489 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,592 | 222 | #526 |
| 1968 | — | — | 195 | #541 |
| 1967 | — | — | 181 | #555 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,671 | 193 | #552 |
| 1965 | — | — | 191 | #556 |
| 1964 | — | — | 196 | #564 |
| 1963 | — | — | 201 | #557 |
| 1962 | — | — | 205 | #549 |
| 1961 | — | — | 162 | #623 |
| 1960 | — | — | 186 | #571 |
| 1959 | — | — | 166 | #602 |
| 1958 | — | — | 159 | #610 |
| 1957 | — | — | 143 | #641 |
| 1956 | — | — | 190 | #552 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,407 | 146 | #614 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,826 | 156 | #590 |
| 1953 | — | — | 146 | #598 |
| 1952 | — | — | 138 | #600 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,424 | 138 | #590 |
| 1950 | — | — | 124 | #617 |
| 1949 | — | — | 99 | #688 |
| 1948 | — | — | 110 | #643 |
| 1947 | — | — | 108 | #663 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,035 | 112 | #609 |
| 1945 | — | — | 72 | #718 |
| 1944 | — | — | 57 | #834 |
| 1943 | — | — | 88 | #683 |
| 1942 | — | — | 64 | #807 |
| 1941 | — | — | 63 | #788 |
| 1940 | — | — | 68 | #743 |
| 1939 | — | — | 57 | #805 |
| 1938 | — | — | 68 | #743 |
| 1937 | — | — | 67 | #744 |
| 1936 | — | — | 63 | #768 |
| 1935 | — | — | 68 | #741 |
| 1934 | — | — | 71 | #725 |
| 1933 | — | — | 59 | #800 |
| 1932 | — | — | 93 | #617 |
| 1931 | — | — | 74 | #703 |
| 1930 | — | — | 83 | #685 |
| 1929 | — | — | 67 | #788 |
| 1928 | — | — | 75 | #739 |
| 1927 | — | — | 71 | #781 |
| 1926 | — | — | 71 | #769 |
| 1925 | — | — | 87 | #692 |
| 1924 | — | — | 87 | #704 |
| 1923 | — | — | 79 | #733 |
| 1922 | — | — | 92 | #674 |
| 1921 | — | — | 128 | #554 |
| 1920 | — | — | 115 | #580 |
| 1919 | — | — | 62 | #832 |
| 1918 | — | — | 53 | #909 |
| 1917 | — | — | 31 | #1,224 |
| 1916 | — | — | 36 | #1,073 |
| 1915 | — | — | 33 | #1,127 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,227 |
| 1913 | — | — | 20 | #1,149 |
| 1912 | — | — | 16 | #1,185 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,625 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,292 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,404 |
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).