About the name Boyce
Boyce belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Boyce first appears in Social Security records in 1885. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #529 in 1938, and in 2024 11 babies received the name — 5,510 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.