Maryalice
Feminine
Maryalice pairs Mary with a name that is itself a Germanic ruin. Alice descends from Adelaide — adal, noble, plus heid, a kind or sort — worn down through French Aalis until only two syllables were left. The compound therefore joins a name of disputed Hebrew origin to a heavily eroded German one.
How old is the name Maryalice?
Maryalice first appears in US birth records in 1899 — 126 years ago. The typical Maryalice alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 1,700 people named Maryalice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maryalice most popular?
Maryalice peaked in 1944, reaching #1188 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 5,945 places below that high. See the whole 1944 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adelheidis to Maryalice
The story of Maryalice
The mid-century American Mary compounds paired Mary with whatever the family wanted second, and Alice was a natural choice: it had been a top-ten American name in the 1900s and was still entirely ordinary in the 1940s. Mary Alice, Mary Ann, Mary Lou and Mary Jane all peak within twenty years of each other, and the closed spelling appears whenever the paperwork drops the space. Maryalice peaked in 1944, in the middle of the war years when the whole family was at its height.
Meaning
Mary plus Alice: a disputed Hebrew name plus Germanic "noble"
Alice comes from Adelheidis through Old French Adelais and Aalis, from adal, noble, and heid, a sort or condition — so a person of noble kind. The erosion is well documented. Mary is Greek Maria from Hebrew Miryam, whose meaning is genuinely unresolved. The compound means the sum of its halves and nothing more.
How the name formed
- Adelheidis
- Aalis
- Alice
- Mary Alice
- Maryalice
Related forms: Marie-Alice · Adelheid · Maria Alice
Pronouncing Maryalice
MAIR-ee-AL-iss
Four syllables with two stresses, one on each half. The compound does not merge into a single stress pattern. The final s is unvoiced.
Nicknames for Maryalice
High
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
- 1899
- Most girls named
- 194751 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1188reached in 1944
- Change vs 2023
- +36.4%15 in 2025, from 11
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.
Maryalice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marie-Alice in French — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Maria Alice in Italian — related form
Maryalices among us
people named Maryalice are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Maryalice
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maryalice
- #7133
- Maryalice on the 2025 chart
- #921
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maryalice went to 15 girls in 2025, but Mariaalice is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 39, which makes it the 921st most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,212 places above the chart.
- Mariaalice24
- Maryalice15
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Maryalice 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 Loreta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maryalice's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Loreta climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Loreta's path sketches the road Maryalice is walking now.
Maryalice 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
Maryalice beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maryalice in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are historic, ordinary and instantly recognizable.
- Alice is available as a complete and currently fashionable short form.
- It has an unmistakable mid-century warmth.
- Forms will split the closed spelling in unpredictable places.
- Mary Alice with a space is far more common.
- The 1940s peak dates it to one generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maryalices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Maryalice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maryalice?
- Maryalice is one of 2 recorded spellings. Mariaalice is the more common one — 24 births in 2025 against 15 for Maryalice.
- How popular is the name Maryalice in 2025?
- Maryalice ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maryalice?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Maryalice — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maryalice with classmates?
- Maryalice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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