Alice at a glance
- Meaning
- “noble type”
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Germanic
- Pronunciation
- AL-is
- Nicknames
- Ally, Allie
- Other forms
- Alicia, Alix, Alys
Where the name Alice comes from
Alice comes from Adalheidis, the same old Germanic name as Adelaide, and the Normans brought it to England in the 11th century. It was very common in the Middle Ages and became famous again through Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Queen Victoria also gave the name to one of her daughters.
Famous people named Alice
- Alice Walker (novelist)