Bruce Forename
1,050th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 882,527 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
New Zealand
Bruce Forename Definition:
A male name. the use of this as a christian name in Scotland and to some extent in England appears to be of recent growth; Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 does not mention it. It is the surname of Robert de Bruce (1274-1329), liberator and King of Scotland.
Read More About This ForenameBruce Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 588,644 | 1:616 | 116 |
| Canada | 100% | 78,305 | 1:423 | 71 |
| Australia | - | 43,161 | 1:316 | 57 |
| New Zealand | - | 23,929 | 1:190 | 13 |
| England | 100% | 21,680 | 1:2,565 | 383 |
| South Africa | 100% | 16,451 | 1:3,315 | 625 |
| Zambia | - | 8,243 | 1:1,923 | 362 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 7,010 | 1:1,622 | 343 |
| Mozambique | - | 6,720 | 1:4,054 | 816 |
| Kenya | 100% | 6,384 | 1:7,254 | 1,024 |
| Scotland | 100% | 5,942 | 1:900 | 178 |
| Burundi | 100% | 5,793 | 1:1,710 | 517 |
| Ghana | 100% | 5,562 | 1:4,852 | 620 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 5,512 | 1:13,394 | 1,239 |
| Uganda | 99% | 5,467 | 1:7,492 | 822 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 4,535 | 1:5,210 | 1,047 |
| China | - | 3,814 | 1:358,169 | 22,462 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,953 | 1:72,549 | 4,520 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 2,880 | 1:5,355 | 818 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 2,798 | 1:11,012 | 1,554 |
| Angola | 100% | 2,699 | 1:9,991 | 1,166 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 2,499 | 1:3,262 | 358 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,983 | 1:19,066 | 1,940 |
| Philippines | 99% | 1,895 | 1:55,942 | 3,940 |
| France | 100% | 1,331 | 1:49,940 | 1,525 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1,290 | 1:13,265 | 1,360 |
| Togo | - | 1,071 | 1:6,759 | 1,050 |
| Peru | 100% | 963 | 1:33,013 | 2,076 |
| Thailand | 100% | 834 | 1:84,012 | 7,527 |
| Jamaica | - | 755 | 1:3,819 | 679 |
| Poland | 100% | 754 | 1:50,434 | 1,356 |
| Wales | 100% | 725 | 1:4,268 | 549 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 680 | 1:24,856 | 2,198 |
| Nigeria | 89% | 664 | 1:267,416 | 10,430 |
| Bangladesh | - | 642 | 1:248,382 | 11,817 |
| Gabon | 100% | 601 | 1:3,134 | 706 |
| Bahamas | - | 590 | 1:677 | 164 |
| Chile | 67% | 575 | 1:30,621 | 1,370 |
| Egypt | 100% | 564 | 1:162,945 | 6,404 |
| Mexico | 98% | 525 | 1:236,466 | 3,896 |
| Micronesia | - | 525 | 1:203 | 51 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 507 | 1:20,574 | 1,916 |
| Germany | 100% | 497 | 1:194,523 | 3,049 |
| Vanuatu | - | 477 | 1:549 | 123 |
| Ireland | 99% | 468 | 1:9,922 | 706 |
| Samoa | - | 456 | 1:428 | 122 |
| India | 100% | 430 | 1:2,825,298 | 131,311 |
| Ivory Coast | 98% | 429 | 1:53,790 | 3,897 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 429 | 1:48,483 | 5,248 |
| Japan | - | 411 | 1:311,402 | 8,728 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 404 | 1:53,491 | 3,425 |
| Fiji | - | 403 | 1:2,214 | 616 |
| Hong Kong | - | 369 | 1:21,010 | 2,153 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 368 | 1:700,988 | 48,076 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 365 | 1:19,595 | 2,018 |
| Botswana | 100% | 311 | 1:7,024 | 1,107 |
| Namibia | - | 302 | 1:7,961 | 1,024 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 283 | 1:107,597 | 7,404 |
| Portugal | - | 277 | 1:37,584 | 1,442 |
| Kuwait | - | 275 | 1:13,765 | 1,556 |
| Bahrain | - | 266 | 1:5,070 | 791 |
| Swaziland | - | 256 | 1:5,079 | 891 |
| Singapore | 100% | 244 | 1:25,767 | 4,279 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 220 | 1:37,334 | 1,901 |
| Morocco | - | 218 | 1:157,563 | 4,496 |
| South Korea | - | 195 | 1:28,433 | 2,375 |
| Barbados | - | 193 | 1:1,501 | 351 |
| Belgium | 100% | 190 | 1:60,474 | 2,686 |
| Haiti | 100% | 183 | 1:58,617 | 3,762 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 179 | 1:7,606 | 1,206 |
| Guyana | 100% | 175 | 1:4,361 | 821 |
| Guam | - | 164 | 1:980 | 210 |
| Israel | 99% | 154 | 1:54,564 | 3,215 |
| Qatar | 100% | 148 | 1:16,011 | 2,450 |
| Belize | 100% | 144 | 1:2,460 | 562 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 137 | 1:13,454 | 854 |
| Congo | 100% | 133 | 1:37,663 | 3,131 |
| Spain | 100% | 133 | 1:349,849 | 5,338 |
| Sweden | 100% | 127 | 1:77,621 | 3,586 |
| Liberia | 100% | 125 | 1:35,296 | 2,064 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 122 | 1:194,833 | 17,553 |
| Russia | 100% | 119 | 1:1,212,048 | 9,742 |
| Ecuador | - | 118 | 1:150,228 | 2,980 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 117 | 1:137,679 | 2,567 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 116 | 1:265,400 | 5,580 |
| Greece | 100% | 114 | 1:95,917 | 2,636 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 106 | 1:498,003 | 14,262 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 99 | 1:1,109 | 229 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 97 | 1:311,360 | 9,742 |
| Jersey | 100% | 95 | 1:1,052 | 228 |
| Norway | 100% | 91 | 1:56,399 | 2,226 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 87 | 1:121,855 | 2,781 |
| Italy | 100% | 85 | 1:718,378 | 6,856 |
| Panama | 100% | 85 | 1:45,959 | 3,191 |
| Guernsey | - | 83 | 1:763 | 171 |
| Suriname | - | 82 | 1:6,742 | 1,371 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 81 | 1:10,754 | 924 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 79 | 1:1,258 | 267 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 79 | 1:776 | 148 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 74 | 1:64,432 | 2,531 |
| Iraq | - | 72 | 1:486,359 | 5,493 |
| Bermuda | - | 71 | 1:913 | 199 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 71 | 1:8,182 | 858 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 69 | 1:742 | 70 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| Colombia | 100% | 62 | 1:770,628 | 9,884 |
| Benin | 100% | 53 | 1:199,544 | 9,504 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 52 | 1:5,195 | 708 |
| Myanmar | - | 49 | 1:1,060,169 | 627 |
| Denmark | - | 47 | 1:120,202 | 3,247 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 47 | 1:1,970,705 | 3,142 |
| Honduras | 100% | 45 | 1:195,944 | 4,636 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 41 | 1:1,333 | 281 |
| French Polynesia | - | 38 | 1:7,313 | 1,076 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 34 | 1:959,515 | 12,037 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 34 | 1:3,282 | 615 |
| American Samoa | - | 29 | 1:1,926 | 312 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 28 | 1:1,240 | 288 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 27 | 1:2,032 | 465 |
| Burkina Faso | 91% | 26 | 1:706,903 | 21,562 |
| Cambodia | 71% | 25 | 1:650,933 | 12,367 |
| Czechia | 71% | 25 | 1:426,246 | 2,332 |
| Ethiopia | - | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 25 | 1:709,874 | 8,915 |
| Mongolia | - | 25 | 1:117,393 | 7,151 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 22 | 1:273,561 | 6,085 |
| Argentina | 63% | 21 | 1:2,036,821 | 7,601 |
| Macau | - | 20 | 1:30,410 | 434 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 20 | 1:177,515 | 2,440 |
| Seychelles | - | 19 | 1:4,877 | 888 |
| Finland | 92% | 17 | 1:322,540 | 4,487 |
| East Timor | - | 16 | 1:76,148 | 197 |
| El Salvador | - | 16 | 1:396,362 | 4,002 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 16 | 1:597 | 129 |
| Oman | - | 15 | 1:273,911 | 3,812 |
| Austria | 100% | 14 | 1:608,157 | 5,259 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Aruba | - | 13 | 1:7,983 | 1,397 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 13 | 1:2,404 | 549 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 13 | 1:40,704 | 2,103 |
| Iceland | - | 12 | 1:30,501 | 1,954 |
| Nauru | 100% | 12 | 1:994 | 151 |
| Estonia | 100% | 11 | 1:119,580 | 4,476 |
| Hungary | 100% | 11 | 1:890,161 | 2,642 |
| Monaco | 100% | 11 | 1:3,497 | 622 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 11 | 1:17,668,880 | 95,124 |
| Cook Islands | - | 10 | 1:1,815 | 293 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 9 | 1:804,089 | 6,114 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 9 | 1:19,757 | 2,072 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Grenada | 100% | 8 | 1:13,516 | 1,533 |
| Turkey | 100% | 8 | 1:9,725,214 | 31,896 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 7 | 1:332 | 62 |
| Senegal | 100% | 7 | 1:2,083,051 | 13,702 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 7 | 1:758,580 | 3,008 |
| Cuba | - | 5 | 1:2,301,310 | 5,387 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 5 | 1:112,810 | 2,667 |
| Belarus | 100% | 4 | 1:2,370,596 | 9,928 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Guinea | 100% | 4 | 1:2,964,662 | 5,204 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Maldives | - | 4 | 1:108,476 | 2,638 |
| Serbia | - | 4 | 1:1,786,430 | 6,903 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Tonga | - | 4 | 1:26,859 | 378 |
| Uruguay | - | 4 | 1:856,909 | 8,493 |
| Albania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 3 | 1:3,214,315 | 27,427 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 3 | 1:1,174,819 | 6,090 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 3 | 1:1,047 | 226 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Jordan | - | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| Mauritania | - | 3 | 1:1,365,080 | 16,011 |
| Nepal | - | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 2 | 1:2,914 | 288 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Brucé (1) are calculated separately.
Bruce (162,393) may also be a surname.
Bruce Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. the use of this as a christian name in Scotland and to some extent in England appears to be of recent growth; Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 does not mention it. It is the surname of Robert de Bruce (1274-1329), liberator and King of Scotland. The family of de Bruce or de Braose took its name from Braose (now Brieuse) near Falaise in Normandy. It was spelt in various ways during the Middle Ages, when the family was a powerful one, with branches all over England; some of the surviving forms are Bruce, Browse, Brewis.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
M., is noted by neither Yonge nor Swan. It was originally, as it still is, a Scottish surname drawn from Brieux in France: cf. Beaton and Cumming. (Weekley, Romance of Names.)
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Old French name, meaning: From Bruys in Normandy.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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