Meaning not yet researched.
Alice: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,547 in 2025. Its best rank was #8 in 1906.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8 in 1906; #65 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alice in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#65 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #8.
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Alice: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,547 girls in 2025. Peak: #8 in 1906 · most girls in one year: 11,955 (1921).
In 2025, 3,547 US girls were named Alice, making it the 65th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #63 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 3,531 girls named Alice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 11,955, in 1921. For comparison, it was #87 in 2015 and #57 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alice in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 1,414 babies with the name. In all, 590,106 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 110,911 babies named Alice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 35,480 US girls were named Alice; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 3,826. In 2025 that was about 1 in 453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alice ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #31 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 43 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alicia (231,497 babies since 1880), Alisa (34,727 babies since 1880), Alecia (12,055 babies since 1880) and Alesia (7,544 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alica, Aleck and Aleece are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Allie, Elsie and Lisa.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, English, French and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alica (1,271), Aleck (1,223), Aleece (657), Alicja (399), Alik (392), Ailie (382), Allyce (379), Aliz (310), Alic (231), Ailis (228), Allice (194), Adeliz (120), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 21 | #31 | #85 |
| District of Columbia | 15 | #34 | #67 |
| Alaska | 11 | #38 | #40 |
| Idaho | 36 | #38 | #107 |
| Vermont | 9 | #38 | — |
| Florida | 308 | #41 | #92 |
| Oregon | 52 | #46 | #36 |
| Massachusetts | 105 | #46 | #53 |
| Minnesota | 79 | #49 | #72 |
| Connecticut | 52 | #50 | #88 |
| New Hampshire | 19 | #53 | #61 |
| Utah | 64 | #54 | #43 |
| Washington | 92 | #56 | #40 |
| Tennessee | 102 | #59 | #123 |
| Nevada | 31 | #61 | #82 |
| Missouri | 76 | #62 | #58 |
| Texas | 391 | #63 | #97 |
| Maryland | 56 | #63 | #97 |
| Arizona | 80 | #65 | #116 |
| Wisconsin | 64 | #67 | #75 |
| Virginia | 86 | #70 | #102 |
| Indiana | 79 | #70 | #147 |
| Colorado | 65 | #72 | #53 |
| West Virginia | 18 | #73 | #166 |
| New York | 183 | #73 | #76 |
| South Carolina | 52 | #74 | #114 |
| North Carolina | 121 | #74 | #116 |
| Oklahoma | 42 | #76 | #76 |
| Georgia | 108 | #76 | #93 |
| New Jersey | 90 | #79 | #100 |
| Montana | 11 | #80 | #106 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #80 | #69 |
| Alabama | 50 | #81 | #95 |
| Louisiana | 44 | #83 | #178 |
| California | 338 | #85 | #74 |
| Arkansas | 29 | #86 | #132 |
| Illinois | 95 | #88 | #115 |
| Iowa | 32 | #90 | #75 |
| Pennsylvania | 103 | #91 | #126 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #94 | #92 |
| Michigan | 79 | #95 | #103 |
| Ohio | 99 | #99 | #106 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #100 | #68 |
| Kansas | 30 | #102 | #84 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #102 | #181 |
| Nebraska | 20 | #105 | #91 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #108 | #47 |
| Kentucky | 37 | #118 | #91 |
| Delaware | 7 | #118 | #190 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #152 | #209 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #162 | #84 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,547 | #65 | — | — |
| 2024 | 3,531 | #63 | 6 | #11,010 |
| 2023 | 3,349 | #66 | — | — |
| 2022 | 3,511 | #64 | 7 | #9,875 |
| 2021 | 3,509 | #65 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,296 | #76 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,552 | #73 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2018 | 3,667 | #71 | 5 | #12,247 |
| 2017 | 3,826 | #70 | — | — |
| 2016 | 3,692 | #76 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,426 | #87 | 5 | #12,169 |
| 2014 | 3,055 | #98 | 5 | #12,191 |
| 2013 | 2,940 | #107 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,503 | #127 | 5 | #12,353 |
| 2011 | 2,195 | #142 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,780 | #173 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,276 | #257 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,025 | #328 | — | — |
| 2007 | 952 | #346 | — | — |
| 2006 | 847 | #382 | — | — |
| 2005 | 756 | #413 | — | — |
| 2004 | 756 | #403 | — | — |
| 2003 | 700 | #431 | — | — |
| 2002 | 657 | #444 | — | — |
| 2001 | 633 | #440 | — | — |
| 2000 | 669 | #422 | — | — |
| 1999 | 652 | #423 | — | — |
| 1998 | 597 | #438 | — | — |
| 1997 | 578 | #441 | — | — |
| 1996 | 593 | #430 | — | — |
| 1995 | 580 | #442 | — | — |
| 1994 | 596 | #422 | — | — |
| 1993 | 684 | #373 | 6 | #7,664 |
| 1992 | 688 | #371 | — | — |
| 1991 | 725 | #355 | — | — |
| 1990 | 773 | #345 | — | — |
| 1989 | 742 | #343 | 14 | #3,815 |
| 1988 | 820 | #302 | 5 | #7,309 |
| 1987 | 770 | #314 | — | — |
| 1986 | 712 | #339 | — | — |
| 1985 | 668 | #353 | 8 | #4,712 |
| 1984 | 687 | #337 | — | — |
| 1983 | 698 | #329 | 6 | #5,504 |
| 1982 | 749 | #323 | 7 | #5,028 |
| 1981 | 746 | #316 | — | — |
| 1980 | 738 | #328 | — | — |
| 1979 | 780 | #307 | 10 | #3,813 |
| 1978 | 790 | #292 | 8 | #4,161 |
| 1977 | 858 | #278 | — | — |
| 1976 | 955 | #246 | 5 | #5,610 |
| 1975 | 1,055 | #231 | 5 | #5,483 |
| 1974 | 1,181 | #216 | 12 | #2,950 |
| 1973 | 1,187 | #214 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,198 | #231 | 7 | #3,970 |
| 1971 | 1,507 | #198 | 5 | #4,929 |
| 1970 | 1,621 | #201 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,715 | #185 | 7 | #3,603 |
| 1968 | 1,731 | #187 | 7 | #3,371 |
| 1967 | 1,928 | #168 | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1966 | 2,221 | #157 | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1965 | 2,564 | #145 | 14 | #2,179 |
| 1964 | 2,842 | #141 | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1963 | 3,067 | #138 | 12 | #2,419 |
| 1962 | 3,249 | #133 | 11 | #2,508 |
| 1961 | 3,586 | #126 | 11 | #2,540 |
| 1960 | 4,051 | #119 | 12 | #2,426 |
| 1959 | 4,162 | #112 | 12 | #2,419 |
| 1958 | 4,124 | #115 | 19 | #1,838 |
| 1957 | 4,432 | #106 | 21 | #1,752 |
| 1956 | 4,680 | #98 | 7 | #3,223 |
| 1955 | 5,079 | #87 | 11 | #2,438 |
| 1954 | 5,271 | #81 | 10 | #2,594 |
| 1953 | 5,740 | #73 | 24 | #1,551 |
| 1952 | 5,908 | #69 | 19 | #1,749 |
| 1951 | 6,315 | #62 | 19 | #1,725 |
| 1950 | 6,363 | #57 | 14 | #2,022 |
| 1949 | 6,660 | #53 | 13 | #2,123 |
| 1948 | 6,981 | #49 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 1947 | 7,849 | #47 | 21 | #1,646 |
| 1946 | 7,363 | #44 | 18 | #1,693 |
| 1945 | 6,359 | #41 | 25 | #1,327 |
| 1944 | 7,102 | #38 | 27 | #1,284 |
| 1943 | 7,648 | #38 | 32 | #1,214 |
| 1942 | 7,382 | #39 | 34 | #1,194 |
| 1941 | 7,445 | #34 | 39 | #1,040 |
| 1940 | 7,603 | #32 | 34 | #1,136 |
| 1939 | 7,365 | #31 | 31 | #1,170 |
| 1938 | 7,490 | #29 | 31 | #1,171 |
| 1937 | 7,120 | #28 | 41 | #983 |
| 1936 | 7,201 | #27 | 37 | #1,051 |
| 1935 | 7,443 | #25 | 38 | #1,041 |
| 1934 | 7,784 | #25 | 36 | #1,092 |
| 1933 | 7,697 | #22 | 40 | #1,014 |
| 1932 | 8,537 | #21 | 50 | #916 |
| 1931 | 8,815 | #21 | 43 | #1,015 |
| 1930 | 9,516 | #20 | 51 | #944 |
| 1929 | 9,480 | #21 | 47 | #983 |
| 1928 | 10,139 | #19 | 37 | #1,165 |
| 1927 | 10,679 | #17 | 43 | #1,080 |
| 1926 | 10,956 | #17 | 49 | #980 |
| 1925 | 11,576 | #15 | 51 | #945 |
| 1924 | 11,537 | #15 | 39 | #1,153 |
| 1923 | 11,331 | #15 | 27 | #1,422 |
| 1922 | 11,277 | #15 | 29 | #1,367 |
| 1921 | 11,955 | #15 | 35 | #1,227 |
| 1920 | 11,596 | #15 | 28 | #1,385 |
| 1919 | 11,141 | #13 | 28 | #1,351 |
| 1918 | 11,590 | #13 | 34 | #1,192 |
| 1917 | 10,990 | #13 | 25 | #1,398 |
| 1916 | 10,719 | #13 | 30 | #1,207 |
| 1915 | 10,525 | #13 | 27 | #1,267 |
| 1914 | 8,198 | #12 | 30 | #1,019 |
| 1913 | 6,934 | #11 | 24 | #1,023 |
| 1912 | 6,285 | #11 | 23 | #937 |
| 1911 | 4,813 | #11 | 15 | #859 |
| 1910 | 4,671 | #10 | 15 | #782 |
| 1909 | 4,170 | #10 | 15 | #716 |
| 1908 | 4,270 | #9 | 11 | #826 |
| 1907 | 4,107 | #9 | 14 | #700 |
| 1906 | 4,192 | #8 | 20 | #504 |
| 1905 | 3,610 | #10 | 15 | #615 |
| 1904 | 3,131 | #13 | 9 | #812 |
| 1903 | 2,996 | #12 | 9 | #783 |
| 1902 | 3,135 | #10 | 12 | #652 |
| 1901 | 2,562 | #12 | 10 | #684 |
| 1900 | 3,059 | #14 | 8 | #972 |
| 1899 | 2,523 | #12 | 7 | #857 |
| 1898 | 2,846 | #11 | 12 | #638 |
| 1897 | 2,431 | #16 | 17 | #474 |
| 1896 | 2,651 | #12 | 13 | #594 |
| 1895 | 2,457 | #17 | 8 | #796 |
| 1894 | 2,414 | #17 | 5 | #1,079 |
| 1893 | 2,434 | #13 | 11 | #617 |
| 1892 | 2,373 | #14 | 8 | #797 |
| 1891 | 2,015 | #16 | 9 | #639 |
| 1890 | 2,271 | #14 | 10 | #631 |
| 1889 | 2,145 | #12 | 9 | #674 |
| 1888 | 2,202 | #13 | 5 | #1,037 |
| 1887 | 1,819 | #14 | 10 | #583 |
| 1886 | 1,811 | #11 | 10 | #606 |
| 1885 | 1,681 | #11 | 9 | #642 |
| 1884 | 1,732 | #11 | — | — |
| 1883 | 1,488 | #11 | 6 | #802 |
| 1882 | 1,542 | #8 | — | — |
| 1881 | 1,308 | #10 | 7 | #709 |
| 1880 | 1,414 | #8 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).