Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: FrenchAlice is a feminine first name with roots in the French and German languages.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Alice yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Alice's rank hit its best mark, #8, in 1880 — the same year Samuel, John, Thomas, William, Charles, and August also peaked positionally, per earlier batches. The raw count came 41 years later, 11,955 births in 1921.
586,537 total US births since 1880 make this one of the larger names in this batch by history, and the recent trend is mildly positive: up 15% over the past decade to 3,520 births in 2024.
Nobel laureate Alice Munro and activist Alice Walker anchor the name in 20th-century literature; rock musician Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, shows it carried by a man as a stage name.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,414 | #8 |
| 1881 | 1,308 | #10 |
| 1882 | 1,542 | #8 |
| 1883 | 1,488 | #11 |
| 1884 | 1,732 | #11 |
| 1885 | 1,681 | #11 |
| 1886 | 1,811 | #11 |
| 1887 | 1,819 | #14 |
| 1888 | 2,202 | #13 |
| 1889 | 2,145 | #12 |
| 1890 | 2,271 | #14 |
| 1891 | 2,015 | #16 |
| 1892 | 2,373 | #14 |
| 1893 | 2,434 | #13 |
| 1894 | 2,414 | #17 |
| 1895 | 2,457 | #17 |
| 1896 | 2,651 | #12 |
| 1897 | 2,431 | #16 |
| 1898 | 2,846 | #11 |
| 1899 | 2,523 | #12 |
| 1900 | 3,059 | #14 |
| 1901 | 2,562 | #12 |
| 1902 | 3,135 | #10 |
| 1903 | 2,996 | #12 |
| 1904 | 3,131 | #13 |
| 1905 | 3,610 | #10 |
| 1906 | 4,192 | #8 |
| 1907 | 4,107 | #9 |
| 1908 | 4,270 | #9 |
| 1909 | 4,170 | #10 |
| 1910 | 4,671 | #10 |
| 1911 | 4,813 | #11 |
| 1912 | 6,285 | #11 |
| 1913 | 6,934 | #11 |
| 1914 | 8,198 | #12 |
| 1915 | 10,525 | #13 |
| 1916 | 10,719 | #13 |
| 1917 | 10,990 | #13 |
| 1918 | 11,590 | #13 |
| 1919 | 11,141 | #13 |
| 1920 | 11,596 | #15 |
| 1921 | 11,955 | #15 |
| 1922 | 11,277 | #15 |
| 1923 | 11,331 | #15 |
| 1924 | 11,537 | #15 |
| 1925 | 11,576 | #15 |
| 1926 | 10,956 | #17 |
| 1927 | 10,679 | #17 |
| 1928 | 10,139 | #19 |
| 1929 | 9,480 | #21 |
| 1930 | 9,516 | #20 |
| 1931 | 8,816 | #21 |
| 1932 | 8,536 | #21 |
| 1933 | 7,697 | #22 |
| 1934 | 7,784 | #25 |
| 1935 | 7,443 | #25 |
| 1936 | 7,201 | #27 |
| 1937 | 7,120 | #28 |
| 1938 | 7,489 | #29 |
| 1939 | 7,366 | #31 |
| 1940 | 7,603 | #32 |
| 1941 | 7,445 | #34 |
| 1942 | 7,382 | #39 |
| 1943 | 7,648 | #38 |
| 1944 | 7,102 | #38 |
| 1945 | 6,359 | #41 |
| 1946 | 7,363 | #44 |
| 1947 | 7,849 | #47 |
| 1948 | 6,981 | #49 |
| 1949 | 6,660 | #53 |
| 1950 | 6,363 | #57 |
| 1951 | 6,315 | #62 |
| 1952 | 5,908 | #69 |
| 1953 | 5,740 | #73 |
| 1954 | 5,271 | #81 |
| 1955 | 5,079 | #87 |
| 1956 | 4,681 | #98 |
| 1957 | 4,431 | #106 |
| 1958 | 4,125 | #115 |
| 1959 | 4,162 | #112 |
| 1960 | 4,049 | #119 |
| 1961 | 3,586 | #126 |
| 1962 | 3,250 | #133 |
| 1963 | 3,067 | #138 |
| 1964 | 2,842 | #141 |
| 1965 | 2,563 | #145 |
| 1966 | 2,221 | #157 |
| 1967 | 1,928 | #168 |
| 1968 | 1,731 | #187 |
| 1969 | 1,715 | #185 |
| 1970 | 1,621 | #201 |
| 1971 | 1,507 | #197 |
| 1972 | 1,198 | #231 |
| 1973 | 1,187 | #214 |
| 1974 | 1,182 | #216 |
| 1975 | 1,055 | #231 |
| 1976 | 955 | #246 |
| 1977 | 858 | #278 |
| 1978 | 791 | #292 |
| 1979 | 780 | #307 |
| 1980 | 738 | #328 |
| 1981 | 746 | #316 |
| 1982 | 749 | #323 |
| 1983 | 698 | #329 |
| 1984 | 687 | #337 |
| 1985 | 669 | #352 |
| 1986 | 712 | #339 |
| 1987 | 770 | #314 |
| 1988 | 820 | #302 |
| 1989 | 742 | #343 |
| 1990 | 773 | #345 |
| 1991 | 725 | #355 |
| 1992 | 688 | #371 |
| 1993 | 684 | #373 |
| 1994 | 596 | #421 |
| 1995 | 581 | #442 |
| 1996 | 593 | #430 |
| 1997 | 578 | #441 |
| 1998 | 596 | #439 |
| 1999 | 652 | #423 |
| 2000 | 669 | #422 |
| 2001 | 633 | #440 |
| 2002 | 657 | #444 |
| 2003 | 700 | #431 |
| 2004 | 756 | #403 |
| 2005 | 756 | #413 |
| 2006 | 847 | #382 |
| 2007 | 951 | #347 |
| 2008 | 1,025 | #328 |
| 2009 | 1,275 | #257 |
| 2010 | 1,780 | #173 |
| 2011 | 2,195 | #142 |
| 2012 | 2,503 | #127 |
| 2013 | 2,940 | #107 |
| 2014 | 3,055 | #98 |
| 2015 | 3,426 | #87 |
| 2016 | 3,692 | #76 |
| 2017 | 3,826 | #70 |
| 2018 | 3,664 | #71 |
| 2019 | 3,549 | #73 |
| 2020 | 3,294 | #76 |
| 2021 | 3,509 | #65 |
| 2022 | 3,511 | #64 |
| 2023 | 3,346 | #66 |
| 2024 | 3,520 | #62 |
