Entry № 433 · Germanic origin

Alice Alice — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AL-iss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Noble, of noble kind"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval

A name that means "noble, of noble kind".

Alice comes from the Old French Aalis, itself from the Old Germanic Adalheidis — meaning "noble kind" or "of noble birth." The same root gives Adelaide, Adelina, and Heidi.

Alice has stayed in the U.S. top 200 for over a century and is currently at #58, climbing — a classical name that never quite leaves.

Noble in Old Germanic. Wonderland's heroine.

The name in its native script.

Alice
Transliteration
Alice
Pronunciation
/ ˈæl.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alice stands.

Alice does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alices before her.

Real people
Alice Walker
American novelist. Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple.
born 1944
Alice Munro
Canadian short-story writer. Nobel Prize in Literature 2013.
1931 – 2024
In fiction
Alice
Heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1865 novel

Names connected to Alice.

The number behind Alice.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alice reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.