This page shows the Bruce (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Bruce was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Bruce's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Bruce for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Bruce appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 1,724 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1975, when the table records 118 babies given the name, at rank 61 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Bruce for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202510333
20243727
20238400
20226472
20217437
20206476
201911320
20188392
201710352
201610355
201514287
201413302
201314280
20128392
201115261
201023202
200916253
200812287
200727182
200615224
200517207
200425167
200314211
200214204
200119171
200036128
199936126
199828148
199730142
199632138
199528138
199443115
199329136
199223155
199135121
199049107
198951103
198842101
19875394
19865197
19855189
19844992
19834397
19825686
19817181
19805390
19796582
19786581
19777773
19768970
197511861
19749667

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