Alyce

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alyce: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alyce: Recorded since 1986, its highest recorded position is #65, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#65highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#944
1997	#1365
1998	#1122
1999	#1473
2000	#3247
2001	#1728
2002	#2105
2003	#4373
2006	#5061
2007	#5201
2008	#3397
2009	#2535
2010	#4688
2011	#2893
2012	#4838
2013	#4050
2014	#3514
2015	#4103
2016	#5785
2017	#4063

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 20 of the 22 years from 1996 to 2017.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1986–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1986
First recorded at #94 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1986 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1986–1988
Highest recorded position: #65 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1987 (recorded 1986–1988).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #4063 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Alyce appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 20 ranked years and 151 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1986.

Alyce across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alyce's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#944 (1996)	#944 (1996)	#4063 (2017)	20 of 22	151 (1996–2017)	22 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#94 (1986)	#65 (1987)	#79 (1988)	3 of 3	302 (1986–1988)	126 (1987)

Alyce by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alyce in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	65	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	46	8 of 10	6
2010s	40	8 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alyce appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1986 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #65 in New South Wales, Australia in 1987.

Alyce's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	High	Verified
1988	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
1987	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1986	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	80	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1986 and 2017, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #65, first reached in 1987.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 126 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1987.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alyan · #1236, 16y
Alyana · #384, 14y
Alycia · #1058, 28y
Alyna · #4012, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mio · #64, 22y
Brock · #69, 27y
Peta · #59, 27y
Kristie · #73, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Rhiannon · #65, 38y
Vilja · #65, 29y
Brenton · #66, 12y
Krystal · #63, 40y

Alyce was ranked #65 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1987. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alyce and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alyce without appearing here.

Alyce moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #4684.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #5876.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4373 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #5876.
Carol Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5785 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Alyce

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4050 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1741.
Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2105 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1472.
Ada Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2105 and #2301 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1628.

Moved the opposite way to Alyce

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 while Ada went from #2683 to #114.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 while Alma went from #2096 to #413.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 while Alyssa went from #783 to #242.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 while Amalie went from #2096 to #740.

Moved the same way as Alyce

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 and Abigail from #21 to #73.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 and Aimee from #70 to #448.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 and Aisling from #440 to #1681.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Alyce went from #944 to #4063 and Alex from #161 to #1411.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1986 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #65 in New South Wales, Australia in 1987. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Alyce

Alyce at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alyce across 2 official records

Alyce by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alyce across 2 official records

Alyce by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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