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Baby name
Alice
Girl
Origin of the name
Alice goes back to the Old High German Adalheidis, like Adelaide: it is made of adal, “noble,” and heit, “nature, kind.” Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland made it famous.
Comeback name
588,147births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 15rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Alice are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Alice is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Alice is most common in North Dakota (1.9 times), Vermont (1.7) and Rhode Island (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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