Alice: Popularity, Rank and History

By the Baby Name Data Editorial Team · Last updated: October 2026

Alice has been recorded in U.S. Social Security Administration baby name data in 145 of the 145 years covered by this site, first appearing in 1880 and most recently in 2024. Across that whole span, parents recorded 586,537 births with this name, split between 584,578 girls and 1,959 boys. Because the larger side of that split is girls, this page follows the girls ranking table as its main story, while still reporting the combined total above so the name can be compared fairly with every other name on the all-time list. Alice sits just below the top-100 all-time cut used for the original launch pages, and this page was added in the October 2026 expansion from exactly the same SSA file. Every figure here is a direct count from the SSA file: there are no estimates, no projections, and no names added from any other source.

The single biggest year for Alice was 1921, when 11,955 girls received the name and it reached rank 15 nationally. A name's peak year matters because it shows the moment when the name competed most successfully against every other name chosen that year. Rank and count tell slightly different stories: the count can rise simply because more babies were born overall, while the rank and the share of births strip out that effect. In 1921, Alice accounted for 0.97% of all recorded girls births, which is the cleanest measure of how dominant it was at its height compared with peaks reached in smaller or larger birth years.

Alice by decade

The decade table below is where the long story of Alice becomes easiest to read. A decade total smooths out single-year spikes and shows whether a name was a brief fashion or a durable fixture. Names that hold high decade totals for forty or fifty years behave very differently from names that post one enormous decade and then fade, and Alice can be placed on that spectrum directly from these ten-year sums and the best rank it managed inside each decade.

In the 1880s, Alice was a top-ten name for girls, reaching as high as rank 8 and recording 17,142 births across the decade, one of its strongest ten-year stretches in the entire file. During the 1890s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 11 and 24,415 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table. In the 1900s, Alice was a top-ten name for girls, reaching as high as rank 8 and recording 35,232 births across the decade, one of its strongest ten-year stretches in the entire file. In the 1910s, Alice was a top-ten name for girls, reaching as high as rank 10 and recording 85,866 births across the decade, one of its strongest ten-year stretches in the entire file. During the 1920s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 15 and 110,526 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table. During the 1930s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 20 and 78,968 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table. During the 1940s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 32 and 72,392 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table. During the 1950s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 57 and 52,075 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table.

During the 1960s, Alice recorded 26,952 births for girls and reached a best annual rank of 119, placing it outside the top 100 in that decade and showing how far its standing moved compared with its strongest periods. During the 1970s, Alice recorded 11,134 births for girls and reached a best annual rank of 197, placing it outside the top 100 in that decade and showing how far its standing moved compared with its strongest periods. During the 1980s, Alice recorded 7,331 births for girls and reached a best annual rank of 302, placing it outside the top 100 in that decade and showing how far its standing moved compared with its strongest periods. During the 1990s, Alice recorded 6,466 births for girls and reached a best annual rank of 345, placing it outside the top 100 in that decade and showing how far its standing moved compared with its strongest periods. During the 2000s, Alice recorded 8,269 births for girls and reached a best annual rank of 257, placing it outside the top 100 in that decade and showing how far its standing moved compared with its strongest periods. During the 2010s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 70 and 30,630 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table. During the 2020s, Alice stayed inside the top 100 for girls, with a best rank of 62 and 17,180 births recorded over the ten years, a solid and visible presence without quite reaching the very top of the table.

Rank history in selected years

This table samples the record at intervals so the shape of the history is visible at a glance: the birth count, the national rank among girls, and the share of all girls births for that year. Shares are included deliberately. In the 1880 file the recorded birth population is far smaller than in the peak birth years of the twentieth century, so a modest count in 1880 can represent a larger share, and a larger rank, than the same count would earn today. Reading count, rank, and share together is the method this site recommends on every page, and it is explained in full on the methodology page linked in the footer. Years in which Alice does not appear for girls are omitted rather than shown as zero, because the SSA does not release counts below five.

Recent years and the other side of the table

Between 2010 and 2024 the annual count moved from 1,780 to 3,520, a change of +97.8 percent, which is the clearest short-hand for where Alice stands right now in the most recent data. In 2000, for comparison, Alice recorded 669 births for girls, and in 2010 it recorded 1,780. Placing 2024 between those two reference points shows whether the latest figure is part of a steady climb, a steady slide, or a plateau after earlier movement. None of these short windows should be read on their own: a name recovering from a low base can post large percentage gains while still ranking modestly, and a name easing down from a peak can lose percentage points while remaining one of the most used names in the country.

Alice also appears on the boys side of the file, with 1,959 recorded births between 1880 and 2024. That secondary use is much smaller than the 584,578 births recorded for girls, and SSA ranks each sex separately, so the rank history above follows the girls table only. Counting both sides together, Alice totals 586,537 recorded births, which is the figure that places it at number 106 on this site's all-time combined list. Readers comparing names should keep the two sides separate, because a rank earned among boys and a rank earned among girls describe two different fields of competing names in the same year.

To explore further, compare Alice with the full rankings for its peak year (1921) through the years index, browse the decade rankings, or return to the complete A–Z list of name pages. The state pages show how the biggest states ranked names in 2024, which often differs from the national order in the smaller details even when the same few names lead both tables.

Frequently asked questions

How many babies named Alice were born in 2024?
In 2024 the SSA recorded 3,520 girls named Alice, ranked 62 among girls that year.

When was Alice most popular?
Alice peaked in 1921 with 11,955 births for girls, reaching rank 15 that year in SSA records.

How many people named Alice appear in SSA records since 1880?
SSA records show 586,537 births named Alice from 1880 through 2024, counting both sexes together.

Disclaimer: Baby Name Data publishes statistics drawn from U.S. Social Security Administration baby name records. Figures are counts of Social Security card applications by year of birth and are shown for general information only. Counts below five in any year, sex, or state are not released by the SSA and are not estimated here. Nothing on this page is advice about what to name a child.

Data: U.S. Social Security Administration baby name records, 1880–2024, retrieved October 2026. Source: ssa.gov/oact/babynames/