Alyce

Where Alyce comes from

Alyce hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Alyce Mills born
    American silent film actress
  3. 1904
    Alyce McCormick born
    American actress
  4. 1921
    Peak, #293
    503 babies named Alyce — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #425.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alyce Mills · American silent film actress, 1899–1990
  • Alyce McCormick · American actress, 1904–1932
  • Alyce Clarke · American politician, born 1939
  • Alyce Frank · American landscape painter, 1932–2024
  • Alyce Wood · Australian canoeist, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.