Alyce
Meaning
variant of Alice, noble
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
14 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
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
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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