Boyce
Last seen for girls in 1954 at #5,753 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1938 · 121 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,518since 1885
Boyce over time
Rank among boys' names. Boyce has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #9,823 | 7 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,562 | 16 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,111 | 18 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,491 | 10 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,158 | 9 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,019 | 17 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,368 | 19 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,748 | 16 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,350 | 15 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,838 | 18 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,710 | 18 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,272 | 22 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,867 | 29 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,665 | 16 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,001 | 23 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,886 | 24 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,124 | 19 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,771 | 25 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,254 | 44 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,658 | 27 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,265 | 39 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,183 | 41 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,340 | 32 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,131 | 43 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,000 | 54 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,126 | 46 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,138 | 46 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,024 | 56 | |
| 1961 | — | #980 | 62 | |
| 1960 | — | #964 | 62 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,019 | 57 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,081 | 50 | |
| 1957 | — | #897 | 71 | |
| 1956 | — | #833 | 80 | |
| 1955 | — | #812 | 81 | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #868 | 71 |
| 1953 | — | #805 | 79 | |
| 1952 | — | #836 | 70 | |
| 1951 | — | #785 | 80 | |
| 1950 | — | #827 | 68 | |
| 1949 | — | #687 | 99 | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | #729 | 85 |
| 1947 | — | #758 | 82 | |
| 1946 | — | #689 | 88 | |
| 1945 | — | #650 | 86 | |
| 1944 | — | #674 | 85 | |
| 1943 | — | #650 | 96 | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | #683 | 88 |
| 1941 | — | #628 | 93 | |
| 1940 | — | #585 | 102 | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | #594 | 95 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | #529 | 121 |
| 1937 | — | #575 | 100 | |
| 1936 | — | #608 | 92 | |
| 1935 | — | #624 | 89 | |
| 1934 | — | #535 | 121 | |
| 1933 | — | #566 | 103 | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | #565 | 109 |
| 1931 | — | #539 | 117 | |
| 1930 | — | #667 | 87 | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | #615 | 97 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #647 | 93 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #766 | 73 |
| 1926 | — | #631 | 99 | |
| 1925 | — | #636 | 100 | |
| 1924 | — | #642 | 99 | |
| 1923 | — | #674 | 90 | |
| 1922 | — | #637 | 103 | |
| 1921 | — | #722 | 83 | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | #805 | 69 |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #799 | 66 |
| 1918 | — | #753 | 73 | |
| 1917 | — | #739 | 71 | |
| 1916 | — | #708 | 71 | |
| 1915 | — | #698 | 70 | |
| 1914 | — | #697 | 54 | |
| 1913 | — | #648 | 47 | |
| 1912 | — | #854 | 27 | |
| 1911 | — | #689 | 21 | |
| 1910 | — | #822 | 14 | |
| 1909 | — | #679 | 16 | |
| 1908 | — | #825 | 11 | |
| 1907 | — | #664 | 15 | |
| 1906 | — | #1,004 | 7 | |
| 1905 | — | #836 | 9 | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | #727 | 9 | |
| 1900 | — | #578 | 18 | |
| 1899 | — | #1,051 | 5 | |
| 1898 | — | #744 | 9 | |
| 1897 | — | #942 | 6 | |
| 1896 | — | #826 | 8 | |
| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #768 | 8 | |
| 1892 | — | #1,066 | 5 | |
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Boyce! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1892, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Boyce is popular in 1970
No state had 5 or more boys named Boyce in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Boyce
- 1,653 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,910)
- 1,408 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #8,910)
- 1,419 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 473 spots in 1900 (#1,051 → #578)
- Biggest drop: 307 spots in 1899 (#744 → #1,051)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1938 at #529 (121 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 62 yrs · run 1907–1957
- Highest: 1 in 8,360 boys born in 1900 were named Boyce (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #529 in 1938, was only 1 in 9,167 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.7% of all boys named Boyce (1,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #936 (1885) | #936 |
| 1890s | 46 | #744 (1898) | #925 |
| 1900s | 90 | #578 (1900) | #805 |
| 1910s | 514 | #648 (1913) | #741 |
| 1920s | 906 | #615 (1929) | #678 |
| 1930s | 1,034 | #529 (1938) | #580 |
| 1940s | 904 | #585 (1940) | #673 |
| 1950s | 707 | #785 (1951) | #876 |
| 1960s | 481 | #964 (1960) | #1,115 |
| 1970s | 252 | #1,254 (1971) | #1,947 |
| 1980s | 169 | #2,110 (1980) | #2,980 |
| 1990s | 135 | #3,368 (1993) | #4,725 |
| 2000s | 92 | #4,785 (2000) | #7,339 |
| 2010s | 123 | #5,106 (2018) | #6,865 |
| 2020s | 60 | #5,562 (2021) | #7,996 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Boyce in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
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1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 68,823 of them was named Boyce, which outranked 69.5% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,615Tremayne28
- #1,615Vernard28
- #1,615Walt28
- #1,658Boyce27
- #1,658Allison27
- #1,658Bryn27
- #1,658Cassius27
- #1,699Abner26
- #1,699Allyn26
- #1,699Alphonse26
Tied with 40 names at #1,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.