Bryce
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from a Celtic personal name surviving only as Britius or Brixius; (ii) a different form of Breeze; (iii) anglicization of the Jewish surname Briess, of unknown origin and meaning
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹajs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bryce is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.6K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 517 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
107,825 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bais in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) from a Celtic personal name surviving only as Britius or Brixius; (ii) a different form of Breeze; (iii) anglicization of the Jewish surname Briess, of unknown origin and meaning.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bryce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #911 | 107,825 | 1 in 3.1K | 105K | Bryce | 517 |
| AU Australia | #607 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 92 | Bryce | 187 |
| CA Canada | #888 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 6 | Bryce | 225 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 5 | Bryce | 200 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Bryce | 6 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Bais | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | #316 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 10 | Bryce | 121 |
107,825 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bryce is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Surname from c.1180, first associated with Lennox; commemorates St Bricius. Early record: Richard Brice, burgess of Stirling, 1296.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Brice.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This is an English name long found in Ireland. It, like Bryson, has been used in Donegal as a synonym of Breslin
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In ang, breaking
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bryce DeWittb. 1923USAmerican physicist (1923–2004)
- Bryce Courtenayb. 1933ZAAustralian novelist (1933–2012)
- Bryce Zabelb. 1954USAmerican television producer, director, and writer
- Bryce Dessnerb. 1976USAmerican composer and guitarist
- Bryce Johnsonb. 1977USAmerican actor
- Bryce Dallas Howardb. 1981USAmerican actress and filmmaker
- Bryce Papenbrookb. 1986USAmerican voice actor and kickboxer
- Bryce Harperb. 1992USAmerican professional baseball player
- Bryce Robinsonb. 1999USAmerican actor
- Bryce Gheisarb. 2004USAmerican TV actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 105K | #523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #523 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 919 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2000 | 92 | #91 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 76 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2002 | 56 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 49 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 10 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bryce a male or female name?
- Bryce is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Bryce mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from a Celtic personal name surviving only as Britius or Brixius; (ii) a different form of Breeze; (iii) anglicization of the Jewish surname Briess, of unknown origin and meaning. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Bryce?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107,825 people named Bryce in 2020, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bryce compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bryce is the 911th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Bryce have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Bryce, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bryce.
- Where is Bryce most common?
- Bryce is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Bryce?
- In the etymology graph, Brice is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bryce?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹajs/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Bryce?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bryceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bryce” — the 911th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.