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Alyce

girl name
Origin
Germanic
Syllables
2
Peak era
1900s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

variant of Alice, noble

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Alyce around the world

One shared root links 21 names across 3 languages.

Shared root: a Germanic family built on adal "noble": Adalheidis "of noble kind" wore down through Old French Aalis into Alice and a crowd of descendants

The constellation

AlyceEnglish · variantAdelaideEnglishAdelaidaSpanishAliceEnglishAliciaSpanishAdelaSpanishAdeleFrench
14 more branches of this family
AlisonEnglish · diminutiveAllisonEnglish · variantAlysonEnglish · variantAllieEnglish · short formAddieEnglish · short formAdaEnglish · short formAdellaEnglish · variantAdeliaEnglish · related formAdelineFrench · diminutiveAdalineEnglish · variantAdelynEnglish · variantAdalynEnglish · variantAdalynnEnglish · variantAlineFrench · short form

Popularity, 1890–2024

peak 1900s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Alyce peaked in the 1900s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.

See popularity in Brazil

Popularity in Brazil

3,799 people · the #3,309 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 52,632 · median age 7

1990s2000s2010s

Among people named Alyce living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.

The census also counted 1,003 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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