Bice
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/baɪs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Bice is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 49K
- CACanada≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Biçe in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Bice | 3 |
| US United States | 6,841 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Bice | 332 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | Bice | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Bice | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Biçe | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 2 | Bice | 89 |
| IE Ireland | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bice | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bice | 2 |
| AL Albania | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 14 | Bice | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bice is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Italian: contracted pet form of BEATRICE .
as a word
In sga, genitive singular feminine of bec
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, be able to
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dažos apvidos aita
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- John Biceb. 1853AUAustralian politician
- Jack Biceb. 1884AUAustralian politician
- Robert Biceb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914-1968)
- Jeanne Biceb. 1939USAmerican fashion designer
- David F. Biceb. 1945USAmerican Marine Corps general
- Olivette Biceb. 1968VUNi-Vanuatu athletics competitor
- Stephanie Biceb. 1973USAmerican politician
- Bo Biceb. 1975USAmerican singer and musician
- Steve Biceb. 1981CACanadian curler
- Adam Biceb. 1989USAmerican football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.8K | #5,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.7K | #4,795 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.6K | #5,108 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bice mean, and where does it come from?
- A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bice?
- In the etymology graph, Bee is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bice?
- In English /baɪs/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bice have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Bice in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bice.
- How common is the name Bice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,841 people named Bice in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/biceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bice”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.