Bruce was a Scottish surname, describing people from the French town Brix in Normandy. It translates to ‘the willowlands’. In France, the surname Le Brix is the equivalent to Bruce.
Bruce is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Bruce isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Bruce ranks 428. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Bruce. In total, there are currently 378,677 people – children, adults and seniors – named Bruce living in the United States, which is approximately 0.11 % of the entire population.
Bruce was a Scottish surname, describing people from the French town Brix in Normandy. It translates to ‘the willowlands’. In France, the surname Le Brix is the equivalent to Bruce.
Bruce has now been ... used as a given name for several centuries - even for the shark model from the movie 'Jaws' (1975).
Bruce is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Bruce. This means that several boys named Bruce have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Bruce has reached its best rank of #27 multiple times, most recently in 1952. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Bruce one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bruce was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Bruce is one of them. However, Bruce is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Maine seem to particularly fancy this name – the 3,843 men called Bruce who live here are 0,518% of all male residents and push their name up to #45 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Maine. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 378,677 people with the name Bruce. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Bruce on position 83 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Bruce is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bruce and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bruce, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Unicorn
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bruce
Bruce
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
U
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
U
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bruce sounds like this:
