Bryce

Where Bryce comes from

The dictionaries list Bryce as a given name — a male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Brice — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Celtic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,373 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Bryce DeWitt born
    American physicist
  3. 1981
    Bryce Dallas Howard born
    American actress and filmmaker
  4. 2000
    Peak, #92
    4,319 babies named Bryce — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #203.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Brice.
Namesakes
  • Bryce Dallas Howard · American actress and filmmaker, born 1981
  • Bryce DeWitt · American physicist, 1923–2004
  • Bryce Johnson · American actor, born 1977
  • Bryce Harper · American professional baseball player, born 1992
  • Bryce Deadmon · American sprinter, born 1997

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.