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Loyce

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Literal meaning not recorded

Loyce has been given to 4,278 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 1933, with 107 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% girls, 18% boys all-time.

Babies named Loyce, 1981

1 in 494,000

Loyce over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Loyce over time

In 1981, Loyce went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19011981

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Loyce: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loyce means

Loyce is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Loyce is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,503 girls were recorded with the name Loyce between 1901 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1933; its best national rank was #633 in 1933.

In the United States, 775 boys were recorded with the name Loyce between 1906 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,092 in 1911.

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 Loyce?

Loyce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 494,000
7 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 238,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
342,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loyce 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 1981 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 342,528 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loyce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loyces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loyce was born before 1934 — so the typical Loyce is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
677
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1930s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (822).

Is Loyce 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1933 (107)
Years since peak
92
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#633
1933

Spellings of Loyce

Loyce is not the most common spelling — Joyce is, with 85.0% against Loyce's 0.58%.

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.

Where Loyce is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Loyce was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 34,915 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 11,111
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 20,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Loyce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Loyce is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Loyce was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 357,027 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Loyce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loyce around the world

Where Loyce ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1991–1996
    #3,130
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Loyce

People whose public names include Loyce, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Loyce 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
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Best rank ever
#633
1933
Peak year
1933
107 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
3,503
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,092
1911
Peak year
1924
29 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
775
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Loyce

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

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Names with a curve like Loyce

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Loyce, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Loyce

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

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