Bruce

What Bruce means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Bruce yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1956, with 14,660 babies; 558 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Bruce?

US: Falling: down from #404 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #586 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1951, when 14,090 boys got the name (#26 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,061 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,350 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,964 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (0.93 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.71 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.62 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Bruce is #536 in the US and #856 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Bruce were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Bryce919 US · 11 E&W
• Brice42 US
• Breece32 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Bruce

Boys

• Jay#392“victory”^*
• Russell#345Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 7,487 babies; 944 in 2025
• Leroy#883“the king”^*
• Wayne#652“wagon”^*
• Kendrick#535Editor’s note Down from #366 in 2015 to #535 in 2025 in the US
• Stanley#863“stone + meadow”^*

For a sister

• Lacey#738Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 2,399 babies; 370 in 2025
• Darcy#857“to burn, consume”^*
• Kori#978Form of Corey, possibly meaning “troop, host, company”^*
• Holly#416“wood, clearing, meadow”^*
• Kelsey#814Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #343 in 2015, #814 in 2025
• Tiffany#878Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1988, with 18,364 babies; 304 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Bruce’s. Rank is US 2025.