🔥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.

# 541 in the US

Bruce Rank in US Top 1000

# 650 on Nameberry

Bruce Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Bruce Popularity

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