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Bryce vs Bryelle

American parents have registered 127,695 Bryces since 1880, against 652 Bryelles. Bryce is still ahead, with 995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bryce against Bryelle, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bryce Bryelle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bryce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Bryce had 1,202 and Bryelle had 48.

Side by side

  Bryce Bryelle
Total US births 127,695652
Most in one year 4,43748
Babies in 2025 99530
Estimated living today 122,000650
Median age today 2110
Peak year 20002024
Best rank 92nd boys3,277th girls
Rank in 2025 357th4,546th
First recorded 19081991
Girls / boys 3,592 / 124,103652 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bryces alive today are over 21; half the Bryelles are over 10. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bryce Bryelle
England and Wales 7506

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bryce and Bryelle.