Girl
Alice
Alice means "Noble kind" and comes from Germanic, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is a well-known pick in the registry. In total, about 520,293 American babies have carried this name since 1900.
GermanicNoble kind
Old FrenchTruth, or nobility
Births by decade
1900s
35,356
1910s
86,117
1920s
110,909
1930s
79,365
1940s
72,646
1950s
52,219
1960s
27,048
1970s
11,181
1980s
7,367
1990s
6,462
2000s
8,255
2010s
23,368
Peaked in the 1920s · 520,293 total U.S. births since 1900