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Alice
Pronounced /ˈæl.ɪs/
Rank in 2024
#62
Born in 2024
3,520
Peak year
1921 · #15
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:6 in 2024 (#12,225)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,520 girls were named Alice, about 1 in every 458.
- It peaked in 1921 with 11,955 babies, ranked #15.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 584,578 girls have been named Alice since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alice per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 10.2Greatest1901–27
- 6.9Silent1928–45
- 2.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 2.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 208,946 babies, 10.21 per 1,000. Silent: 142,126 babies, 6.88 per 1,000. Boomers: 97,722 babies, 2.73 per 1,000. Gen X: 22,030 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,233 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,573 babies, 0.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 41,332 babies, 2.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *haiduz (“character”). Doublet of Adelaide.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈæl.ɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alice, CC BY-SA 4.0.