Boyce
Boyce is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 529th, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1934121 births
- Best rank
- #529in 1938
- Since 1885
- 5,510people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,510 boys have been named Boyce in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 121 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1930s alone account for 19%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Boyce | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 90 | |
| 1910s | 514 | |
| 1920s | 906 | |
| 1930s | 1,034 | |
| 1940s | 904 | |
| 1950s | 707 | |
| 1960s | 481 | |
| 1970s | 252 | |
| 1980s | 169 | |
| 1990s | 135 | |
| 2000s | 92 | |
| 2010s | 123 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1934, its biggest year
Boyce was the 535th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1934 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1934.
Names that rose and fell with Boyce
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gaylordpeak 1931
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Talmadgepeak 1933
- Lylepeak 1922
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Gordonpeak 1952
- Melvinpeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.