Alice

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Alice boys named Alice

By the numbers

Total US births

590,106

Estimated living today

212,000

Median age today

65

Peak year

1921

Best rank

15th

Rank in 2025

65th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

588,147 / 1,959

How old the living Alices are

born that year still alive today

Of the 590,106 babies given the name since 1880, about 212,000 are alive — 36 in every hundred. Roughly 53,000 of them are children and 108,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic languages

From Middle English Alice, from Old French Alys, Alice, from Old High German Adalheid, proposed to derive from Proto-Germanic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alices

• Alice Munro (1931–2024)Canadian writer
• Alice Walker (born 1944)American author and activist
• Alice Cooper (born 1948)American singer
• Alice Weidel (born 1979)German politician (born 1979), AfD
• Alice Brady (1892–1939)American actress
• Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969)Member of the House of Battenberg
• Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843–1878)Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
• Alice Paul (1885–1977)American suffragist, feminist, and activist

People named Alice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alice is most common

• NY43,780
• PA32,841
• CA31,285
• TX28,725
• IL25,240
• OH22,378
• MA19,504
• NC17,899
• MI17,498
• VA14,945

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alice is most concentrated in North Dakota (1.9×), Vermont (1.7×), Rhode Island (1.7×), Montana (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular girls’ names the year Alice peaked:

• Mary
• Dorothy
• Helen
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Virginia

All the names of 1921

Alice elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Alice: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Alice is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.95% of children were given it – 592 of them.

Alice: rank by region

In 2025, Alice was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Alice was among the 10 most common names in 19 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 5 different years.

In 2025, Alice was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Alice appears in the lists for Isole (5th), Nord-est (6th), Nord-ovest (7th), Centro (10th) and Sud (10th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alice appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (1st), Province of Namur (3rd), Province of Luxembourg (6th), Province of Hainaut (7th), Province of West Flanders (8th), Province of Liège (8th), Brussels-Capital Region (9th), Province of East Flanders (9th), Province of Flemish Brabant (28th), Province of Antwerp (29th) and Province of Limburg (69th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Alice by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Alice among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 5,245 who carry it, 734 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Alice lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,207 women called Alice were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Alicia
• Alison
• Alisha
• Aliyah
• Alina
• Ali
• Alissa
• Alivia
• Alisa
• Alijah
• Aline
• Alia

Alice against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Alice vs Alicia
• Alice vs Alison
• Alice vs Alisha
• Alice vs Aliyah
• Alice vs Alina
• Alice vs Ali

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