Boice as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Boice

What is the meaning of the name Boice ?

The baby name Boice is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /bɔɪs/ ("boyce", rhymes with "voice").

Boice is English in Origin.

Boice is a surname-turned-given name rooted in Norman French. It stems from Old French bois, “wood,” carried to England after 1066 and used for someone who lived by or worked in the woods. The spelling Boice developed as a variant of Boyce, influenced by French Boise/Boisé (“wooded”) and later established in Britain and North America. In Ireland, the name appears through Norman settlement, especially in Ulster, reinforcing the same woodland sense.

As a first name, Boice surfaced in the United States in the late 19th century, riding the broader fashion for adopting surnames as given names. It saw modest use in the early 1900s and remains rare today, lending it a tailored, vintage feel. Close variants include Boyce, Boise, Boyes, and Boyse; diminutive nicknames such as Bo or Boycey sometimes occur. The core meaning stays consistent: “from the woods.”

⚙ Boice is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Boice appears only 12 times in total — found in 6 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.