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brice Name Meaning and History

  1. French, English, and Scottish: from a personal name of Celtic origin (Latinized as Bri(c)tius, Bric(c)ius, or Brixius), which was borne by a 5th-century saint who succeeded St. Martin as bishop of Tours. Consequently, it became a popular given name in France and Germany in the early Middle Ages. It was imported to England and Scotland by the Normans.
  2. Welsh: Anglicized form of the patronymic ap Rhys ‘son of Rhys’ (see Reese).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brice Families in the US in 1920
Number of brice families
 86-169
 29-85		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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