Old French Aalis, from Germanic Adalheidis, "noble sort" — noble kind. Lewis Carroll's 1865 heroine was named for a real Alice Liddell.
Alice ranks 65th among American girls in 2025, with 3,547 born that year. Its best year was 1921, when 11,990 babies were given the name, ranking 15th. The typical living American called Alice is about 72 years old today. It is relatively most common in Vermont, where it accounts for 0.41% of births.
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state name files, 2025 release, and the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales. Etymology researched and written by our editors. Living-population and median-age figures are our own estimates, described in the methodology.