Bruce

Bruce is the 652nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 50,879 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,875.

By the numbers

People: 50,879
Rank: 652nd
How common: 1 in 5,875
Per 100,000: 17.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Bruce

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)American comedian and social critic
Steve Bruce (born 1960)English professional football manager and former player
Jack Bruce (1943–2014)British musician
S. M. Bruce (1883–1967)Australian politician, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
James Bruce (1730–1794)Scottish explorer and botanist
William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921)Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841)British nobleman and diplomat
David Bruce (1855–1931)Australian-British physician, pathologist and microbiologist

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

Surnames like Bruce

Also a first name

Bruce has been given to 388,275 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. 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.