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How popular is “Boyce” in the USA?

Number of people named “Boyce” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Boyce” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Boyce” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Boyce” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Boyce” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Boyce” by birth year

This chart shows how “Boyce” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 18 0.000039977 18 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 14 0.0000237 14 -100%
1911 21 0.000032595 21 -100%
1912 27 0.000027326 27 -100%
1913 47 0.000041333 47 -100%
1914 54 0.000038126 54 -100%
1915 70 0.000038201 70 -100%
1916 71 0.000036704 71 -100%
1917 71 0.000035381 71 -100%
1918 73 0.000033623 73 -100%
1919 71 0.000033645 5 66 -86%
1920 74 0.000032705 5 69 -86%
1921 83 0.000035554 83 -100%
1922 103 0.000044995 103 -100%
1923 90 0.000039088 90 -100%
1924 99 0.000041569 99 -100%
1925 100 0.000042858 100 -100%
1926 99 0.00004312 99 -100%
1927 79 0.000034061 6 73 -85%
1928 99 0.000043787 6 93 -88%
1929 102 0.000046529 5 97 -90%
1930 87 0.000039131 87 -100%
1931 117 0.000055598 117 -100%
1932 114 0.000053995 5 109 -91%
1933 103 0.000051514 103 -100%
1934 121 0.000058262 121 -100%
1935 89 0.000042586 89 -100%
1936 92 0.000044282 92 -100%
1937 100 0.000046934 100 -100%
1938 126 0.000056947 5 121 -92%
1939 100 0.000045384 5 95 -90%
1940 102 0.000044296 102 -100%
1941 93 0.000038171 93 -100%
1942 93 0.000034043 5 88 -89%
1943 96 0.000034012 96 -100%
1944 85 0.000031598 85 -100%
1945 86 0.000032417 86 -100%
1946 88 0.00002754 88 -100%
1947 82 0.000022763 82 -100%
1948 91 0.000026358 6 85 -87%
1949 99 0.000028409 99 -100%
1950 68 0.00001941 68 -100%
1951 80 0.000021717 80 -100%
1952 70 0.000018431 70 -100%
1953 79 0.0000205 79 -100%
1954 76 0.000019092 5 71 -87%
1955 81 0.000020174 81 -100%
1956 80 0.000019403 80 -100%
1957 71 0.000016896 71 -100%
1958 50 0.000012095 50 -100%
1959 57 0.000013709 57 -100%
1960 62 0.000014926 62 -100%
1961 62 0.000014968 62 -100%
1962 56 0.000013877 56 -100%
1963 46 0.000011621 46 -100%
1964 46 0.000011832 46 -100%
1965 54 0.000014895 54 -100%
1966 43 0.000012372 43 -100%
1967 32 0.000009426 32 -100%
1968 41 0.000012136 41 -100%
1969 39 0.000011222 39 -100%
1970 27 0.000007486 27 -100%
1971 44 0.000012819 44 -100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 -100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 -100%
1974 24 0.000007895 24 -100%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 -100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 -100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 -100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 -100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 -100%
1980 25 0.000007258 25 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 22 0.000006352 22 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 18 0.000005043 18 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 15 0.000003902 15 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 -100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 -100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 -100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Boyan
  6. Boyce (this page)
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  8. Boyde
  9. Boyden
  10. Boyed
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