Boy · Norman French
Bruce
Say it: BROOS
Meaning
From a Norman surname, from Brix in Normandy; its meaning is unknown.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Used as a first name in Scotland and very popular in the US in the 1950s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 385,502 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1951, about 1 in 134 boys
- 579 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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