Alice
Alice is ranked 62nd among girls in 2024 (3,520 births). Its best rank was 8th, in 1880, 1882, 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- #62up 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,5200.22% of girls
- Peak year
- 192111,955 births
- Best rank
- #8first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 586,537people given the name
The story in the numbers
584,578 girls have been named Alice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 11,955 births — 0.97% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 98 → 62).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 88 of them in the top 100 and 10 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,959 boys have also been given it, 0.33% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17,142 | |
| 1890s | 24,415 | |
| 1900s | 35,232 | |
| 1910s | 85,866 | |
| 1920s | 110,526 | |
| 1930s | 78,968 | |
| 1940s | 72,392 | |
| 1950s | 52,075 | |
| 1960s | 26,952 | |
| 1970s | 11,134 | |
| 1980s | 7,331 | |
| 1990s | 6,466 | |
| 2000s | 8,269 | |
| 2010s | 30,630 | |
| 2020s | 17,180 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Alice was the 15th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Alice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Georgiepeak 1925
- Louellapeak 1932
- Easterpeak 1925
- Rosepeak 1917
- Luepeak 1919
- Louisepeak 1921
- Harrietpeak 1921
- Louveniapeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.