Alcine

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Alcine has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1922. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Alcine, 1922

1 in 458,000

Alcine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alcine: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alcine means

Alcine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alcine is used in Norman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Alcine between 1922 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #5,024 in 1922.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alcine?

Alcine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 458,000; 5 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 240,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,338 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alcine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alcine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alcines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alcine was born before 1922 — so the typical Alcine is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Alcine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (5)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,024; 1922

Spellings of Alcine

Alcine is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 53.5% against Alcine's <0.01%.

Alice53.5%588,147
Elaine23.9%262,890
Allie4.8%53,251
Alaina4.6%50,578
Alina4.1%45,387
Arline1.6%17,590
Aline1.3%14,668
Alvina0.96%10,502

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Alcine around the world

Where Alcine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1900–1904
#869
in 1904

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Alcine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,024; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 5 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alcine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Kleine Alcina Alcaria Lovine Irvine Eraine Atline Irline Rozine Lodine Urline Geline Wyline Josine Jacine Tyrine Sagine Jasine Garine Ravine Rejine Rhaine Lumine Haline

Sibling names for Alcine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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