Brice

Where Brice comes from

The dictionaries list Brice as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Celtic
  • French
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #691 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema born
    President of Gabon since 2023
  3. 1988
    Peak, #459
    390 babies named Brice — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Brice Samba born
    French-Congolese footballer
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,029.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Bryce.
  • A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name from French transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Brice Samba · French-Congolese footballer, born 1994
  • Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema · President of Gabon since 2023, born 1975
  • Brice Dja Djédjé · Ivorian association football player, born 1990
  • Brice Guyart · foil fencer, born 1981
  • Brice Hortefeux · French politician, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.