🔥Bruce

Scottish and English from French

"from the brushwood thicket"

Bruce Origin and Meaning

The name Bruce is a boy's name of French, Scottish, English origin meaning "from the brushwood thicket".

Bruce is a Norman place name made famous by the Scottish king Robert the Bruce, who won Scotland's independence from England in the fourteenth century. It's perennially popular in Scotland, but has been rarely used here for a generation -- though the impact of Bruces Lee, Springsteen, Dern and Willis, as well as Batman's Bruce Wayne -- still lingers. At one time Bruce was so widespread in Australia, it became a nickname for any Ozzie man. An interesting alternative is Brix, the Normandy place name where the Bruce family originated.

Bruce Rank in US Top 1000

# 541 in the US

Bruce Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 523 on Nameberry

Bruce Popularity

• 541 US 2023
• 523 Nameberry 2024
• 318 Future 2028
• 706 England 2021
• 78 Dogs 2022
• 73 Cats 2022

20 Names Similar to Bruce

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Famous People Named Bruce

• (Walter) Bruce Willis American actor
• Bruce Timm American artist, character designer, animator, writer, producer and actor
• Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen American musician nicknamed "The Boss"
• Bruce Lee (Jun fan), American actor and martial artist
• Bruce MacLeish Dern American actor
• (William) Bruce Jenner birth name of Caitlyn Marie Jenner, American decathlete and TV personality
• Bruce Raymond Gradkowski American football player
• Bruce William Miller III American football player
• Bruce Lorne Campbell American actor
• Bruce Greenwood Canadian actor and producer
• Bruce Joseph Forsyth Johnson, British TV presenter
• Bruce Dickinson British lead singer of band Iron Maiden
• Bruce Leslie McLaren New Zealand race car designer and driver
• Bruce Smith American NFL Hall of Fame football player
• Bruce Seldon American boxer
• Bruce William Boxleitner American actor
• Bruce Beresford Australian film director
• Bruce Cockburn Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer,songwriter
• Bruce Hornsby American pianist
• Bruce Kulick American musician of KISS and Grand Funk Railroad
• Bruce Arians American NFL head coach
• Bruce Bochy American baseball manager
• Robert the Bruce aka Robert I King of Scots
• Bruce Julian Knight Granofsky (b. 2019) son of actor Krysten Ritter and musician Adam Granduciel

Bruce in Pop Culture

• Bruce Wayne aka Batman DC Comics superhero
• Bruce Banner aka The Incredible Hulk Marvel Comics superhero
• Bruce the Shark character in "Finding Nemo"
• Bruce Nolan main character in 2003 film "Bruce Almighty"
• Bruce Patman character in "Sweet Valley High"
• Bruce Picard character in "Sims" series
• Bruce character on TV's "Grandfathered"
• Bruce Goodman character in video game 'Ace Attorney'
• Bruce minor character on TV's Family Guy
• Bruce one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane on animated series "Codename: Kids Next Door"
• The Bruces Sketch Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Bruce Bogtrotter character in "Matilda"
• Mr. Bruce chihuahua dog in the 2019 film "Hustlers"
• Bruce Maddox character in the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation & later on Star Trek: Picard , Bruce Maddox was a male Human 24th century Starfleet cyberneticist, one of the most prominent Federation researchers in that field in the late 24th century. He worked in the Cybernetics Division of the Daystrom Institute and, in 2365, was the Associate Chair of Robotics. He would later be promoted to Chair of Robotics.
• Bruce a deer villager from Animal Crossing