Brice
Brice was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,945 among boys’ names; 16,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,000 Americans named Brice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brice is “a male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Bryce.”
Also “a male given name from the Celtic languages transferred from the surname.”
/ˈbɹaɪ̯s/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brice?
#2,945 among boys’ names, 2025
Brice fell from #892 in 2015 to #2,945 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.02 per 1,000.
422 babies in 1998, the peak
Brice peaked in 1998, when 422 babies were given it (391 boys, #527 among boys’ names). The 42 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,945 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,446 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,700 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,136 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,647 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,747 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,307 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,197 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 247 | #892 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 241 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 251 | #850 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 219 | #932 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 212 | #938 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 243 | #865 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 306 | #749 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 329 | #708 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 316 | #724 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 318 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 347 | #632 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 318 | #647 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 339 | #614 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 333 | #605 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 361 | #572 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 357 | #572 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 392 | #528 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 391 | #527 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 376 | #532 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 296 | #599 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 318 | #572 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 321 | #572 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 297 | #595 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 307 | #582 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 310 | #572 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 348 | #529 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 398 | #477 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 390 | #459 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 309 | #511 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 304 | #501 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 248 | #559 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 177 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 178 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 172 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 168 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 193 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 173 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 145 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 104 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 137 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 128 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 119 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 141 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 189 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 128 | #729 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 100 | #809 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 62 | #973 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 60 | #940 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 57 | #956 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 73 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 72 | #866 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 70 | #906 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 75 | #870 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 63 | #954 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 62 | #981 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 74 | #885 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 75 | #888 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,061 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 72 | #888 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 56 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 66 | #916 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,122 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,059 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 71 | #830 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 61 | #902 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,142 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,145 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,197 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,108 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,128 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,249 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,152 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,281 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,248 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,112 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,053 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 47 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,177 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 48 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,134 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 50 | #995 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,028 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 58 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,620 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,291 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 9 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 8 | #938 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 7 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 8 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 8 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 6 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 6 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 7 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 8 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 7 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 6 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #807 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 6 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 8 | #707 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 8 | #709 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,116 Americans recorded as Brice, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brice, and how old are they?
14,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 16,116 Americans ever recorded as Brice. The median Brice alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 13,758 people named Brice (434 women and girls, 13,324 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 112 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 734 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brice born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,325 | 0.9× |
Where Brice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brice is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 143,811 babies since 1880, Brice is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 1,037 babies (4.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brice
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brice and names like it
- Compare Brice and BryceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrice peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brice since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Brice.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brice alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.