Alice

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alice is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 231◐
  • FRFrance1 in 325
  • BRBrazil1 in 433

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.0M ●

across 11 countries

#382 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
442 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 231 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AliceLatin · Portuguese●4.6M records
אליסHebrew · Hebrew●52K records
เอลเซThai · Thai●4 records
এলিচBengali · Bangla●1 records
ΕλιζGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elise in FR France, US United States, NL Netherlands and 9 more and אליס in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alice is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#115488,951△104K rec.1 in 433489KAlice204
US United States#590224,717525K rec.1 in 1.5K225KElise442
FR France#184208,595230K rec.1 in 325209KElise347
AU Australia#40844,32935K rec.—328Elise190
SE Sweden#49644,227△2.3K rec.1 in 23144KElise52
IL Israel#30537,46340K rec.—509אליס24
GB United Kingdom#56934,21831K rec.—896Elise168
IT Italy#29129,36127K rec.—2.9KAlice179
IN India—20,38217K rec.—162Alice81
BE Belgium#5719,3208.5K rec.—323Elise96
PT Portugal#7519,2895.2K rec.—992Alice117
CA Canada#55218,51114K rec.—52Elise148

Roughly 489K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 433). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese4.6M43%
  • English3.8M35%
  • French1.1M10%
  • Swahili201K2%
  • German197K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese4,644,69043%
English3,787,69835%
French1,054,07110%
Swahili201,4512%
German197,1732%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alice is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4.5M records spelled Alice59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written A'Lice, Alicé, Al'Ice, A’Lice, Alice'

  • French given name1.1M records spelled Alice37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Alicé, Ãlice, Alïce, Alíce, Alicę

  • a separate given name145K records spelled Alice4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Alíce, Alicé, Aliće

  • Finnish given name47K records spelled Alice3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Älice

  • Thai given name8.2K records spelled Alice15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Alis, อาลิส, Alit, อาลีส, 'Alice

  • Greek given name7.8K records spelled Alice30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

    Languages: Greek, English, German

    Also written Aliki, Αλικη, Αλίκη, Ალიკი, Alis

87 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alice is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Popular after Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; see Alicia, Alison.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Greek/Teutonic; the wise counsellor or the truthful one; noble.

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  • In Irish, Old French Aliz, ultimately from a Germanic form.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Germanic origin, means « noble ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200012K · 1921

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Alice in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18801,414
18811,308
18821,542
18831,488
18841,732
18851,681
18861,811
18871,819
18882,202
18892,145
18902,271
18912,015
18922,373
18932,434
18942,414
18952,457
18962,651
18972,431
18982,846
18992,523
19003,059
19012,562
19023,135
19032,996
19043,131
19053,610
19064,192
19074,107
19084,270
19094,170
19104,671
19114,813
19126,285
19136,934
19148,198
191510,525
191610,719
191710,990
191811,590
191911,141
192011,596
192111,955
192211,277
192311,331
192411,537
192511,576
192610,956
192710,679
192810,139
19299,480
19309,516
19318,815
19328,537
19337,697
19347,784
19357,443
19367,201
19377,120
19387,490
19397,365
19407,603
19417,445
19427,382
19437,648
19447,102
19456,359
19467,363
19477,849
19486,981
19496,660
19506,363
19516,315
19525,908
19535,740
19545,271
19555,079
19564,680
19574,432
19584,124
19594,162
19604,051
19613,586
19623,249
19633,067
19642,842
19652,564
19662,221
19671,928
19681,731
19691,715
19701,621
19711,507
19721,198
19731,187
19741,181
19751,055
1976955
1977858
1978790
1979780
1980738
1981746
1982749
1983698
1984687
1985668
1986712
1987770
1988820
1989742
1990773
1991725
1992688
1993684
1994596
1995580
1996593
1997578
1998597
1999652
2000669
2001633
2002657
2003700
2004756
2005756
2006847
2007952
20081,025
20091,276
20101,780
20112,195
20122,503
20132,940
20143,055
20153,426
20163,692
20173,826
20183,667
20193,552
20203,296
20213,509
20223,511
20233,349
20243,531
20253,547

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Alice Liddell, b. 1852Princess Alice of Battenberg, b. 1885Ayn Rand, b. 1905Alice Munro, b. 1931Sylvia Earle, b. 1935Quentin Bryce, b. 1942Alice Malsenior Walker, b. 1944Alice Walton, b. 1949Anne, Princess Royal, b. 1950Louise Windsor, b. 2003
  • Alice Liddellb. 1852GBEnglish woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland" (1852–1934)
  • Princess Alice of Battenbergb. 1885GBMember of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
  • Ayn Randb. 1905USnot in their usual nameRussian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
  • Alice Munrob. 1931CACanadian writer (1931–2024)
  • Sylvia Earleb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican oceanographer
  • Quentin Bryceb. 1942AUnot in their usual name25th Governor-General of Australia
  • Alice Malsenior Walkerb. 1944USAmerican author and activist (born 1944)
  • Alice Waltonb. 1949USAmerican heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  • Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBnot in their usual namedaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Louise Windsorb. 2003GBnot in their usual namenoblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 150 sources across 81 countries.

Official registers attesting Alice
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022489K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—486K#44
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020225K#249
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024209K#9
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—192K#271
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020118K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44K#88
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202021K—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—18K#144
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—13K#343
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—9.1K#163
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.7K#102

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2,244 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alice?
We estimate roughly 1.0 million people bear Alice (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Alice have the most bearers?
We estimate about 489 thousand people bear Alice in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alice.
Where is Alice most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alice is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 231 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is Alice compared with other names?
In Brazil, Alice is the 115th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Alice a male or female name?
Alice is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Alice mean?
Recorded meaning: From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alice” — the 115th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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