Bryce

At the 2020 census, 4,689 Americans bore the surname Bryce — 6,902nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,689
Rank: 6,902nd
How common: 1 in 63,700
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 12.8%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bryce

Quentin Bryce (born 1942)25th Governor-General of Australia
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922)British academic
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939–2026)Peruvian writer
Ian Bryce (born 1956)English film producer
Trevor R. Bryce (born 1940)Australian Hittitologist

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

Surnames like Bryce

Also a first name

Bryce has been given to 127,695 American babies as a first name since 1908, peaking in 2000. 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.