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The name Alice appears on the comeback by the 100-year rule, and expect the name to rise further in popularity now with the Twilight series, as one of the main vampire characters in the popular series.
Other recent pop culture trends bringing the name back into cool is the main character Alice from the Resident Evil film series, and the US metal band Alice in Chains.

Beautiful, sweet name.
Fifteenth century variant, "Alys".

This name has a far more upscale image in England than in the U.S.

One of Shakespeare's crafty clever wives in the play The Merry Wives of Windsor is called Mistress Alice Ford.

Alice is an anagram of the name Celia.

Personal experiences with the name Alice: | Edit

My daughter's name too, she was born this December and people always say it's not heard very much anymore.

My daughter's name! People regularly tell me that her name is lovely and that it's unusual without being "weird."

I am an Alyss "Alice" and I love my name. Even before people see the spelling they love how simple and yet unusual it is. The alternate spelling makes me so happy.

My name's Alycia and I was named for my Aunt Alice. Alycia is a nice name too, but I've always wished that I'd been named simply Alice instead. Alice is my top girl name at the moment!

Contrary to what all the above comments say about the name Alice being 'unusual', I think it is quite common. I love the name, it is sweet and classical, but I am at high school, and unfortunately there are soooo many Alices in my classes.

As a child in the 60s and 70s, I hated having "Alice" as my middle name because it seemed so unglamorous. On TV, any character called Alice was always an unattractive cleaning woman or something like that. But now I love the name, and my daughter (born in 2000) is called Alice, after my grandmother (born in 1900). The name is classical, classy, pretty... just perfect.

I love being Alice. As a child, adults I was introduced to routinely called me "Alison" immediately after being told my name was Alice, which used to annoy me and now just amuses me. There were many Alisons at my school, but the only other Alice moved there in middle school and was British. She's the only other Alice my age I've ever met.

My name is Alice and I hate my name! I wish I had been named Alicia or Alison or something like that! All of the Alice's I know are old ladies. I always ask my Mom if she had a choice between Alice, Agnes and Ethel! LOL It's such an old lady name. I would have rather been 1 of 10 Jennifer's in my class than the only Alice.

Nicknames for Alice: | Edit

Ally/Allie/Alli/Ali
Cis/Cissy
Sis/Sissy
Lissy

Meanings and history of the name Alice: | Edit

Alice derives from the ancient greek word 'alethéia' which means 'truth'. That's why Alice means the truthful one.

Name Day:
5. February, 6. August, 19. November

Famous real-life people named Alice: | Edit

Alice Ross-King Appleford (1891-1968), Australian military nurse
Alice Austen (1866-1952), American photographer
Alice Bailly (1872-1938), Swiss artist
Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), American feminist leader
Alice Cary, poet
Alice Herndon Childress (1916-1994), American playwright/novelist
Alice Cocéa, French actress
Alice Cooper, singer
Alice Brown Davis (1852-1935), Seminole Nation chief
Alice Eastwood (1859-1953), American botanist
Alice Fisher (1839-1888), English nurse
Alice Gerard, peace activist
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), American anthropologist
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), American public health expert
Alice Hoffman, author of ''Practical Magic''
Alice Milligan, Irish nationalist
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves (1852-1934), the "real" Alice in Wonderland
Alice Herz, anti-war protestor
Ali MacGraw, actress (real first name is Alice)
Alice Meynell, English suffragist and poet
Alice Munro (b. 1931), Canadian writer
Alice Neel (1900-1984), American artist
Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902), American college president
Alice Poznanska Parizeau (1930?-1990), Polish-Canadian writer
Alice Paul, American suffragist
Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), American novelist
Alice Zenobia Richmond, daughter of Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, American wit
Alice Salomon (1872-1948), German feminist educator
Alice Schwarzer, German feminist and publisher
Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
Alice Sheldon (1915-1987), American science-fiction writer (aka "James Tiptree")
Alice Stewart (1906-2002), English epidemiologist
Alice Bunker Stockham, American suffragist
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), lover of Gertrude Stein and famed for her brownies
Alice Walker, author of 'The Color Purple', feminist, human rights and animal rights activist

Alice in song, story & screen: | Edit

The title character in "Alice In Wonderland"
Alice Pleasance Liddell, the real girl who inspired "Alice in Wonderland"
The title character in the song "Alice's Restaurant"
Mistress Alice Ford, one the cunning wives in Shakespeare's comedy, "Merry Wives of Windsor"
Alice Hyatt, the title character in the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and the spinoff '70s TV sitcom "Alice"
The humorous housekeeper on "The Brady Bunch"
The wife of Ralph Kramden on the TV show "The Honeymooners"
Alice Cullen of the Twilight books
A belligerent engineer in the comic strip "Dilbert"
"Alice Blue Gown," song from the musical IRENE, by Harry Tierney
Alice in Chains, 90's metal/grunge band
"Go Ask Alice", controversial 1971 book by an anonymous author.
Alice Cooper - Classic Rock band. Lead singer was born Vincent Damon Furnier in 1948, and after the band was formed, many took that to be his stage name. He ran with the idea.
"Alice, Sweet Alice" 1977 horror movie.
Roz's daughter's name in the tv sitcom 'Frasier'