Alice

Alice is a girl’s name of Celtic, English, French, German, Literary and Teutonic origin. Meaning in Celtic: Noble. Meaning in English: Of the nobility. From the German Adalheidis meaning nobility, and the French Adeliz which is a form of Adelaide. Used in Britian since the 12th century; Alice became very popular in 1865 when Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland was published. Meaning in French: Nobility. French form of the Old German Adalheidis’, a compound of ‘athal’ (noble) and ‘haida’ (hood). Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, was named after Queen Adelaide, 19th century King William IV’s consort. Meaning in German: From the Old German Adalheidis meaning nobility. Also sweet. A literary name from Shakespeare’s King Henry V, where it belongs to attendant to Katherine. Meaning in Teutonic: Noble humor. Alice is a variant of Adelaide. The name has 5 letters.