Alice
Meaning and origin
From English Alice. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1841.
Source: Wiktionary, Swedish entry for Alice (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Alice has been fairly steady over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2011. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
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| Year | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 389 |
| 1999 | 375 |
| 2000 | 455 |
| 2001 | 443 |
| 2002 | 514 |
| 2003 | 664 |
| 2004 | 755 |
| 2005 | 886 |
| 2006 | 799 |
| 2007 | 779 |
| 2008 | 747 |
| 2009 | 953 |
| 2010 | 844 |
| 2011 | 966 |
| 2012 | 919 |
| 2013 | 879 |
| 2014 | 778 |
| 2015 | 828 |
| 2016 | 893 |
| 2017 | 871 |
| 2018 | 751 |
| 2019 | 670 |
| 2020 | 773 |
| 2021 | 691 |
| 2022 | 539 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
Show the figures
| Year | Women and girls | Men and boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 9,225 | – |
| 2000 | 9,339 | – |
| 2001 | 9,520 | – |
| 2002 | 9,756 | – |
| 2003 | 10,135 | – |
| 2004 | 10,640 | – |
| 2005 | 11,270 | – |
| 2006 | 11,813 | – |
| 2007 | 12,353 | – |
| 2008 | 12,863 | – |
| 2009 | 13,602 | – |
| 2010 | 14,251 | – |
| 2011 | 15,050 | – |
| 2012 | 15,768 | – |
| 2013 | 16,439 | – |
| 2014 | 17,075 | – |
| 2015 | 17,744 | – |
| 2016 | 18,536 | – |
| 2017 | 19,292 | 14 |
| 2018 | 19,897 | 17 |
| 2019 | 20,470 | 23 |
| 2020 | 21,141 | 26 |
Alice in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Alice.Hi! My name is Alice.
- Alice bor i Göteborg och pluggar till sjuksköterska.Alice lives in Gothenburg and is training to be a nurse.
- Alice har bott i Uppsala i tre år.Alice has lived in Uppsala for three years.
- Alices mamma är lärare.Alice's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Alices mamma is Alice's mum.
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Questions about Alice
How do you pronounce Alice in Swedish?
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What does the name Alice mean?
From English Alice. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1841.
How popular is Alice in Sweden?
539 babies were named Alice in 2022. In 2020, 21,167 people in Sweden had Alice as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been fairly steady lately and peaked in 2011 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.