Brucie

Girls' name

Nickname of Bruce

Brucie has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Brucie, 1930

1 in 445,000

Brucie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brucie: meaning, origin, and history

Nickname of Bruce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brucie means

Brucie is a nickname of Bruce.

Origin, language, and formation

Brucie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bruce.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Brucie between 1915 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,984 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brucie?

Brucie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930: 1 in 445,000; 5 of 2,223,243 births
Among girls only: 1 in 225,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1930: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 308,208 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Brucie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1930 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 308,208 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brucie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brucies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brucie was born before 1919 — so the typical Brucie is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 63.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Brucie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (6)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,984; 1916

Spellings of Brucie

Brucie is not the most common spelling — Gracie is, with 58.0% against Brucie's 0.02%.

Gracie58.0%84,121
Tracie22.5%32,594
Lucie5.3%7,749
Rubie3.6%5,271
Bryce2.5%3,592
Brie2.2%3,160
Trudie2.2%3,148
Brylie1.5%2,166

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Brucie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,984; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 6 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1930
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Brucie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Brunell Pricie Drucie Percie Jencie Trecie Pencie Walcie Caycie Bracie Bruchie Brunna Wincie Dorcie Jaicie Narcie Tincie Taycie Brucha Bruchy Brunelle Pacie Reecie Tycie

Sibling names for Brucie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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