girls:
17.5k births since 1880
#1125 (80th percentile)
overall:
17.5k births since 1880
#1951 (75th percentile)
The name Alyce is the #1,951 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,453 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,125 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 17,453 births since 1880.
Alyce has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Alyce is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Alyce reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 53.5% percentile (ranked #282) with 393 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 393 births per million (ranked 53.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alyce ranks #913 for girls (3.6% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 5.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alyce".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Alyce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.5% confident that Alyce is pronounced as A-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEES, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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