Bruce
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Bruce
Bruce is a Norman place name made famous by the Scottish king Robert the Bruce, who won Scotland's independence from England in the fourteenth century. Hugely popular in the 40s and 50s, it has since declined in popularity, but nevertheless remains in the US Top 600 and has featured consistently in the latter end of the England and Wales Top 1000 since the 90s.
A nature connected choice, meaning "from the brushwood thicket" or "from the willow land", Bruce has a plethora of famous connections: Lee, Springsteen, Dern, Forsyth, and Willis being just a few. Noteworthy fictional Bruces include Batman's Bruce Wayne, Marvel's Bruce Banner, and the shark from Finding Nemo, while in Australia, the name was at one time Bruce was so widespread, it became a nickname for any Ozzie man.
Strong and solid, but perhaps a little too close to word brute for some, could Bruce regain some of its lost popularity in coming years, riding on the back of word name Truce? Time will tell, but an interesting alternative is Brix, the Normandy place name where the Bruce family originated.
Bruce is also given to girls.
Pronounced BROOS.
As of October 2026, Bruce ranked #536 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #25 in 1952, Nameberry popularity #328.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #401 | 773 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #404 | 765 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #440 | 702 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #429 | 721 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #475 | 612 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #471 | 624 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #498 | 587 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #536 | 548 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #563 | 526 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #541 | 547 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #537 | 553 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #536 | 558 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Bruce for boys
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Bruce on lists
Famous Bruces
- (Walter) Bruce WillisBoy
American actor
- Bruce TimmBoy
American artist, character designer, animator, writer, producer and actor
- Bruce Frederick Joseph SpringsteenBoy
American musician nicknamed "The Boss"
- Bruce Lee (JunBoy
fan), American actor and martial artist
- Bruce MacLeish DernBoy
American actor
- (William) Bruce JennerBoy
birth name of Caitlyn Marie Jenner, American decathlete and TV personality
- Bruce Raymond GradkowskiBoy
American football player
- Bruce William Miller IIIBoy
American football player
- Bruce Lorne CampbellBoy
American actor
- Bruce GreenwoodBoy
Canadian actor and producer
- Bruce Joseph ForsythBoy
Johnson, British TV presenter
- Bruce DickinsonBoy
British lead singer of band Iron Maiden
- Bruce Leslie McLarenBoy
New Zealand race car designer and driver
- Bruce SmithBoy
American NFL Hall of Fame football player
- Bruce SeldonBoy
American boxer
- Bruce William BoxleitnerBoy
American actor
- Bruce BeresfordBoy
Australian film director
- Bruce CockburnBoy
Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer,songwriter
- Bruce HornsbyBoy
American pianist
- Bruce KulickBoy
American musician of KISS and Grand Funk Railroad
- Bruce AriansBoy
American NFL head coach
- Bruce BochyBoy
American baseball manager
- Robert the Bruce aka Robert IBoy
King of Scots
- Bruce Julian Knight Granofsky (b. 2019)Boy
son of actor Krysten Ritter and musician Adam Granduciel
Bruce in pop culture
- Bruce Wayne aka BatmanBoy
DC Comics superhero
- Bruce Banner aka The Incredible HulkBoy
Marvel Comics superhero
- Bruce the SharkBoy
character in "Finding Nemo"
- Bruce NolanBoy
main character in 2003 film "Bruce Almighty"
- Bruce PatmanBoy
character in "Sweet Valley High"
- Bruce PicardBoy
character in "Sims" series
- BruceBoy
character on TV's "Grandfathered"
- Bruce GoodmanBoy
character in video game 'Ace Attorney'
- BruceBoy
minor character on TV's Family Guy
- BruceBoy
one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane on animated series "Codename: Kids Next Door"
- The Bruces SketchBoy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Bruce BogtrotterBoy
character in "Matilda"
- Mr. BruceBoy
chihuahua dog in the 2019 film "Hustlers"
- Bruce MaddoxBoy
character in the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation & later on Star Trek: Picard , Bruce Maddox was a male Human 24th century Starfleet cyberneticist, one of the most prominent Federation researchers in that field in the late 24th century. He worked in the Cybernetics Division of the Daystrom Institute and, in 2365, was the Associate Chair of Robotics. He would later be promoted to Chair of Robotics.
- BruceBoy
a deer villager from Animal Crossing
- Bruce RamseyBoy
from “I Love Lucy”