How popular is the baby name Alice in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Alice.

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Popularity of the baby name Alice


Posts that mention the name Alice

Popular baby names in Yukon (Canada), 2016-2020

Flag of Yukon
Flag of Yukon

From 2016 to 2020, the Canadian territory of Yukon (which shares a border with the U.S. state of Alaska) welcomed 2,023 babies.

The baby girls were given a total of 677 different names (522 of which were used only once), while the baby boys were given a total of 601 different names (418 of which were used only once).

What were the most popular names overall? Ava and Henry.

Here are Yukon’s top girl names and top boy names for the five-year period (2016-2020):

Girl names

  1. Ava, 13 baby girls
  2. Lily, 10
  3. Olivia, 9
  4. Charlotte and Isla, 8 each [tie]
  5. Eleanor, 7
  6. Alice, Amelia, Anna, Aurora, Emma, Evelyn, Freya, Grace, Hazel, and Sadie, 6 each [10-way tie]

Boy names

  1. Henry, 11 baby boys
  2. Carter, Jacob, Mason, and Thomas, 9 each [4-way tie]
  3. Liam, Owen, and Theodore, 8 [3-way tie]
  4. Benjamin, Charles, Hunter, Jack, James, Oliver, and Wyatt, 7 each [7-way tie]
  5. Alexander, Asher, Austin, Isaac, Jasper, Lucas, Noah, Rowan, and William, 6 each [9-way tie]

During the previous five-year period, from 2011 to 2015, the top names in Yukon were Ava and Liam.

P.S. According to the CBC, Yukon’s top names in 2019 specifically were Ava/Isla/Livia/Quinn (a four-way tie) and Henry.

Source: Baby Names in Yukon, 2016-2020 – Yukon Bureau of Statistics

Image: Adapted from Flag of Yukon (public domain)

What gave the baby name Alice a boost in the early 1900s?

Alice Roosevelt, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (in 1902)
Alice Roosevelt (in 1902)

On September 14, 1901, U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley.

Days later, he moved into the White House with his wife, Edith, and their six children: Alice, Theodore III, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin.

Seventeen-year-old Alice — the only child born to Roosevelt’s late first wife — was intelligent and photogenic, but also spoiled and rebellious. Dubbed “Princess Alice” by the press, she was in the headlines nearly as often as her father was during his presidency. Her antics included smoking cigarettes in public, driving a car without a chaperone, sneaking alcohol into dry parties, attending (and betting on) horse races, and carrying a pet garter snake (named Emily Spinach) in her purse.

Her father was quoted as saying, “I can be President of the United States, or I can attend to Alice. I can’t do both!”

Three events drew particular attention to Alice:

  • Her debutante ball, which was held in the White House on January 3, 1902.
  • Her travels through Asia, from July to October, 1905. (She accompanied Secretary of War William Howard Taft on a diplomatic trip that featured stops in in Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, and Korea.)
  • Her wedding to Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth, which was held in the White House on February 17, 1906.
Alice Roosevelt, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (as a bride, in 1906)
Alice Roosevelt (in 1906)

Among the things named in honor of Alice were a color (Alice Blue), several songs (e.g., “Alice Roosevelt March“), and hundreds of babies:

  • 1908: 4,270 baby girls named Alice [rank: 9th]
  • 1907: 4,107 baby girls named Alice [rank: 9th]
  • 1906: 4,192 baby girls named Alice [rank: 8th]
  • 1905: 3,610 baby girls named Alice [rank: 10th]
  • 1904: 3,131 baby girls named Alice [rank: 13th]
  • 1903: 2,996 baby girls named Alice [rank: 12th]
  • 1902: 3,135 baby girls named Alice [rank: 10th]
  • 1901: 2,562 baby girls named Alice [rank: 12th]
  • 1900: 3,059 baby girls named Alice [rank: 14th]

The name Alice — already very popular during the first decade of the 20th century — saw distinct increases in usage in 1902, 1905, and 1906.

Dozens of the baby girls named Alice during that period were given the middle name Roosevelt. Some examples…

What are your thoughts on the name Alice?

Sources:

Images from the Library of Congress: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1902), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1906)

Popular baby names in Portugal, 2024

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Flag of Portugal

In 2024, from January through September, the European country of Portugal welcomed approximately 62,000 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Maria and Francisco (for the sixth year in a row) according to provisional data released in early December, 2024, by the Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN).

Here are Portugal’s projected top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Maria, 4,295 baby girls
  2. Alice, 992
  3. Benedita, 973
  4. Matilde, 942
  5. Leonor, 913
  6. Carolina, 709
  7. Aurora, 697
  8. Camila, 598
  9. Margarida, 586
  10. Beatriz, 551

Boy names

  1. Francisco, 1,270 baby boys
  2. Lourenço, 1,040
  3. Vicente, 1,036 (tie)
  4. Tomás, 1,036 (tie)
  5. João, 1,027
  6. Duarte, 1,012
  7. Afonso, 978
  8. Gabriel, 851
  9. Miguel, 839
  10. Santiago, 782

The name that stood out to Filipa of the Portuguese baby name blog Nomes e mais Nomes was Aurora, “which entered the top 10 strongly, occupying 7th position, even surpassing Camila, which was the craze of recent years!” Here’s her actual sentence (apologies for my clunky translation):

Mas, este ano, o destaque tem de ir inteiramente para Aurora, que entrou em força no top 10, ocupando a 7.ª posição, chegando a ultrapassar Camila, que era a coqueluche dos últimos anos!

I didn’t post about Portugal’s top baby names of 2023, but here are Portugal’s 2022 rankings.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Portugal (public domain)

Popular baby names in Italy, 2023

Flag of Italy
Flag of Italy

In 2023, the Southern European country of Italy welcomed 379,890 babies — 184,514 girls and 195,376 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Leonardo, yet again.

Here are Italy’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Sofia, 4,971 baby girls
  2. Aurora, 4,648
  3. Ginevra, 4,274
  4. Vittoria, 4,194
  5. Giulia, 3,732
  6. Beatrice, 3,425 – pronounced beh-a-TREE-cheh
  7. Ludovica, 3,157
  8. Alice, 3,014 – pronounced a-LEE-cheh
  9. Emma, 2,529
  10. Matilde, 2,465
  11. Anna, 2,128
  12. Camilla, 2,091
  13. Bianca, 1,992
  14. Azzurra, 1,922
  15. Chiara, 1,914 – pronounced KYAH-rah
  16. Nicole, 1,792
  17. Giorgia, 1,780
  18. Isabel, 1,667
  19. Greta, 1,635
  20. Noemi, 1,439
  21. Martina, 1,392
  22. Arianna, 1,389
  23. Gaia, 1,370
  24. Sara, 1,368
  25. Rebecca, 1,328
  26. Viola, 1,325
  27. Elena, 1,270
  28. Ambra, 1,257
  29. Chloe, 1,196 (tie)
  30. Diana, 1,196 (tie)
  31. Adele, 1,194
  32. Mia, 1,192
  33. Margherita, 1,095
  34. Sole, 1,088 – pronounced SOH-leh
  35. Francesca, 1,082
  36. Cecilia, 1,060
  37. Gioia, 1,018
  38. Emily, 1,017
  39. Marta, 964
  40. Elisa, 953
  41. Nina, 929
  42. Lavinia, 912
  43. Anita, 875
  44. Amelia, 870
  45. Eleonora, 853
  46. Carlotta, 833
  47. Maria, 803
  48. Celeste, 788
  49. Eva, 751
  50. Giada, 735

Boy names

  1. Leonardo, 7,096 baby boys
  2. Edoardo, 5,603
  3. Tommaso, 4,687
  4. Francesco, 4,534
  5. Alessandro, 4,383
  6. Mattia, 4,349
  7. Lorenzo, 4,006
  8. Gabriele, 3,954
  9. Riccardo, 3,600
  10. Andrea, 3,333
  11. Diego, 2,722
  12. Giuseppe, 2,661
  13. Matteo, 2,648
  14. Enea, 2,564
  15. Nicolò, 2,444
  16. Antonio, 2,424
  17. Federico, 2,313
  18. Giovanni, 2,093
  19. Filippo, 2,046
  20. Samuele, 2,041
  21. Pietro, 1,993
  22. Giulio, 1,749
  23. Gioele, 1,641 – pronounced jo-EH-leh
  24. Davide, 1,597
  25. Michele, 1,590
  26. Christian, 1,541
  27. Elia, 1,522
  28. Gabriel, 1,497
  29. Noah, 1,386
  30. Marco, 1,353
  31. Salvatore, 1,324
  32. Liam, 1,236
  33. Luca, 1,230
  34. Vincenzo, 1,211
  35. Thomas, 1,146
  36. Emanuele, 1,100
  37. Alessio, 1,056
  38. Nathan, 1,007
  39. Giorgio, 1,006
  40. Samuel, 1,005
  41. Jacopo, 1,002
  42. Giacomo, 1,000
  43. Ettore, 970
  44. Raffael, 900
  45. Daniele, 899
  46. Simone, 892
  47. Luigi, 886
  48. Damiano, 830
  49. Domenico, 818
  50. Santiago, 798

The girls’ top 100 included Anastasia (57th), Sveva (75th), Mariasole (83rd), and Letizia (97th).

The boys’ top 100 included Ludovico (56th), Niccolò (66th), Brando (73rd), and Ciro (94th).

The girl name Azzurra (which is associated with Italy’s national soccer team gli Azzurri, “the Blues”) ranked 20th in both 2022 and 2021 before jumping to 12th place last year.

Speaking of soccer…I recently learned that Italian soccer star Francesco Totti (who played for AS Roma from 1993 to 2017) influenced baby names in Italy via the names of his three children:

  • The usage of Cristian rose after his son Cristian was born in November of 2005:
    • 2006: 3,028 boys named Cristian (rank: 25th)
    • 2005: 1,619 boys named Cristian (rank: 39th)
    • 2004: 1,616 boys named Cristian (rank: 38th)
  • The usage of Chanel rose after his daughter Chanel was born in May of 2007:
    • 2008: 158 girls named Chanel (rank: 189th)
    • 2007: 63 girls named Chanel (rank: 314th)
    • 2006: fewer than five girls named Chanel
  • The usage of Isabel rose after his daughter Isabel was born in March of 2016:
    • 2017: 1,218 girls named Isabel (rank: 36th)
    • 2016: 910 girls named Isabel (rank: 50th)
    • 2015: 570 girls named Isabel (rank: 69th)

Sources: Contanomi – Quante bambine e quanti bambini si chiamano…? – Istat, Leonardo e Sofia “tengono”, risale Francesco – Istat (Jan. 2024), IstatData

Image: Adapted from Flag of Italy (public domain)