Loyce — unisex name

What the Data Says About Loyce

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,503 babies named Loyce between 1901 and 1981, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Loyce currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1981. The name reached its historical peak in 1933, when 107 babies received it in a single year. Loyce is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 775 additional births since 1906.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loyce performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 822 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Loyce shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 869 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Loyce in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loyce in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,503 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.