Alice
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Popular after Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; see Alicia, Alison
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ælɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 37th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 231(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 433
- PTPortugal≈1 in 626
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alice itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #840 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 501 (measured from records)
- 1 in 231 (inferred from the name graph)
488,951 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elise in US United States, FR France, SE Sweden and 1 more and אליס in QA Qatar.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alice is read(measured from records)
Alice is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
Popular after Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; see Alicia, Alison.
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Greek/Teutonic; the wise counsellor or the truthful one; noble.
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A female given name from the Germanic languages popular in England since the Middle Ages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alice in Portuguese.
- French8.2%
From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Germanic origin, means « noble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #140 | 488,951 | 1 in 433 | 489K | Alice | 205 |
| US United States | #624 | 225,222 | 1 in 1.5K | 225K | Elise | 501 |
| IT Italy | #189 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | 2.9K | Alice | 203 |
| FR France | #183 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 800 | 209K | Elise | 359 |
| GB United Kingdom | #617 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 896 | Elise | 214 |
| SE Sweden | #446 | 44,227 | 1 in 231 | 44K | Elise | 73 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 18,252 | 1 in 586 | 18K | — | 1 |
| PT Portugal | #110 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 626 | 992 | Alice | 120 |
| QA Qatar | #37 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 514 | — | אליס | 24 |
488,951 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alice is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Old French Aliz, ultimately from a Germanic form.
as a nameIrish first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 152 sources across 81 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 489K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 486K | #44 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 225K | #249 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 209K | #9 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 192K | #271 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 118K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44K | #88 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 18K | #144 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 9.1K | #163 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.5K | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2.9K | #9 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alice come from?
- From Old French Aalis, a reduced form of Adélaïde; Germanic 'noble kind'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Alice?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Allison and Heidi are forms of the same name in other languages; Ali, Alison and Allie are recorded short or pet forms.
- 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.
- In which country does Alice have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 489 thousand people named Alice, more than in any other country we hold, 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.
- What does the name Alice mean?
- In English, Popular after Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; see Alicia, Alison.
- How common is the name Alice?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 488,951 people named Alice in 2022, about 1 in 433 residents.
- How common is Alice compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alice is the 140th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Alice?
- A machine transcription gives /ælɪs/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aliceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 140th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.