Bruce

Where Bruce comes from

From a Norman place name, Brix, of disputed meaning.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bruce
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Bruce through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #241 among boys, with 47 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1940
    Bruce Lee born
    Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor
  3. 1949
    Bruce Springsteen born
    American rock singer
  4. 1952
    Peak, #25
    14,480 babies named Bruce, its best rank.
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #50.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Bruce Lee · Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor, 1940–1973
  • Bruce Springsteen · American rock singer, born 1949
  • Bruce Dickinson · English heavy metal singer, born 1958
  • Bruce Beutler · American immunologist and geneticist, born 1957
  • Bruce Campbell · American actor, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.