Boyce

Boyce is the 1,327th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,044 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,500.

By the numbers

People: 26,044
Rank: 1,327th
How common: 1 in 11,500
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From Old French bois (“wood”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boyce described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.0%
Black, not Hispanic 19.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Boyce

Cameron Boyce (1999–2019)American actor
William Boyce (1711–1779)English composer and organist
Emmerson Boyce (born 1979)Barbadian footballer
Liam Boyce (born 1991)Northern Irish footballer
Mary Boyce (1920–2006)British scholar in Iranian Studies
Joanna Mary Boyce (1831–1861)English painter
Sonia Boyce (born 1961)British Afro-Caribbean visual artist
William D. Boyce (1858–1929)Businessman and founder of Scouting in America

People named Boyce with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boyce

Also a first name

Boyce has been given to 5,576 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1934. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.