Loyce

Where Loyce comes from

The dictionaries list Loyce as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1901
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1913
    Loyce Whiteman born
    American popular singer
  3. 1933
    Peak, #633
    107 babies named Loyce — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1952
    Loyce Biira Bwambale born
    Ugandan politician
  5. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,578.
  6. 1979
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Loyce Biira Bwambale · Ugandan politician, born 1952
  • Loyce Pace · American public healthy policy expert
  • Loyce Whiteman · American popular singer, 1913–1989

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.