# Loyce (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/loyce/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,278 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 775 / 3,503 (82% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 23 | 2,576 |
| 1963 | 13 | 3,727 |
| 1964 | 11 | 4,239 |
| 1965 | 14 | 3,489 |
| 1966 | 19 | 2,900 |
| 1967 | 13 | 3,767 |
| 1968 | 12 | 4,126 |
| 1969 | 13 | 4,083 |
| 1970 | 8 | 6,113 |
| 1971 | 10 | 5,339 |
| 1972 | 6 | 7,812 |
| 1975 | 5 | 9,928 |
| 1979 | 5 | 11,189 |
| 1980 | 6 | 9,793 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,650 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 9 | 2,890 |
| 1956 | 10 | 2,724 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,324 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,775 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,345 |
| 1960 | 6 | 3,904 |
| 1962 | 9 | 2,969 |
| 1963 | 8 | 3,222 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,310 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,327 |
| 1969 | 7 | 3,806 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,160 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,457 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,690 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,567 |

## People named Loyce

- Coco Crisp, American baseball player
- Doria Ragland, American social worker and mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.