Alyce
Feminine · “noble kind”
Alyce is Alice with the letters that the early twentieth century liked — a y and a c where the plain spelling has an i and an s. The name underneath is a Germanic compound meaning noble kind.
How old is the name Alyce?
Alyce was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Alyce alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 7,000 people named Alyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alyce most popular?
Alyce peaked in 1921, reaching #293 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 3,539 places below that high. See the whole 1921 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alyce
The story of Alyce
Adalheidis was a tenth-century Burgundian empress and saint, and her name spread across Europe, worn down differently in each language. Alice was in heavy English use from the Middle Ages and again from the nineteenth century, helped by two enormously popular children's books. Alyce is the ornamental respelling of that revival, appearing in American registers and peaking around 1920.
Meaning
noble kind, of noble sort
From the Germanic Adalheidis — athal, 'noble', and heid, 'kind' or 'sort'. French wore it down to Aalis and then Alis, which English took as Alice. The German Adelheid and the English Alice are the same name at different stages of erosion.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aalis
- Alice
- Alyce
Related forms: Adelheid · Alice · Alice · Alix
Pronouncing Alyce
AL-iss
Two syllables, stress on the first. Alyce and Alice are homophones; the y and c do no audible work.
Nicknames for Alyce
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1923436 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #293reached in 1921
- Change vs 2022
- +2.7%38 in 2025, from 37
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alyce in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alice in English — spelling variant
- Alice in Italian — related form
- Alix in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Ohio.
Alyces among us
people named Alyce are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Alyce
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alyce
- #3832
- Alyce on the 2025 chart
- #71
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alyce went to 38 girls in 2025, but Alice, Alize and Alyse and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 3,766, which makes it the 71st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,761 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 427 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Alyce itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Merle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alyce's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Merle climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Merle's path sketches the road Alyce is walking now.
Alyce sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alyce is headed
Alyce should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alyce beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alyce in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and both elements are thoroughly documented.
- Alice stands behind it with a thousand years of European use.
- The spelling gives it a distinct written identity at no cost in sound.
- Alice is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and this one will read as a variant.
- It is period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alyces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,000 people named Alyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alyce?
- Alyce is one of 7 recorded spellings. Alice is the more common one — 3,547 births in 2025 against 38 for Alyce.
- How popular is the name Alyce in 2025?
- Alyce ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alyce?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Alyce — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alyce with classmates?
- Alyce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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