Alice
Alice places #65 across the country in 2025, holding steady. Its high-water mark came in 1921, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
What Alice carries
Alice · Teutonic
“noble cheer”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Alice’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alice, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alice since 1880
Alice peaked in 1921 at #15; #65 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alice is most common
The state that gives Alice most often, per girls born there, is Vermont (0.92% in 2025); District of Columbia and Maine are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alice
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adeline
#59 in 2025 · Teutonic
Emery
#74 in 2025 · Teutonic
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with A · Teutonic names · all names
About Alice
Where does Alice rank right now?
Alice places #65 across the country in 2025, holding steady. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Alice?
“noble cheer” is the meaning our source sets down, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Alice?
Nearest by the published recipe: Elsie, Edward and Warren. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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