Royce

What Royce means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #499 vs #1,307 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Royce?

US: Steady: #533 in 2015, #499 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2707 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 810 boys got the name (#392 that year). First in the US records in 1892.

How common

• About 1 in 2,819 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,949 baby boys in England and Wales 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 SD (2.34 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), IA (1.16 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Royce is #499 in the US and #1307 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.8% of US babies named Royce 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

• Reece675 US · 60 E&W
• Rayce28 US
• Ryze22 US
• Race12 US
• Rece9 US
• Ryse6 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 Royce

Boys

• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Clark#377“clergyman; learned man”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Macklin#998Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #998 vs #5,137 in 2025
• Colt#285From the word “colt”^*

For a sister

• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Blake#295“black”^*
• Collins#241“descendant of Coileán”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Sutton#181“south + town”^*

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 Royce’s. Rank is US 2025.