Fun Facts About the Name Marialice
- 180 babies named Marialice: U.S. records list 180 babies given the name Marialice from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Marialice Mean?
Marialice is a compound feminine name formed in the Romance-language naming tradition by joining Maria with Alice. Its sense is the sense of its two parts rather than a single root: the name Maria plus the "noble" meaning carried by Alice.
Maria comes from Greek Maria, from the Hebrew name Miryam (Miriam), the sister of Moses and Aaron in the Bible. The origin of Miryam is uncertain: one long-standing explanation connects it to a Hebrew word for "bitter," another to a sense of "beloved," and some scholars propose an Egyptian source. The name spread through Christian Europe because the Gospels give it to the mother of Jesus.
Alice derives from Old French Aalis or Alis, a shortened form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, the ancestor of Adelaide. That name joins adal, "noble," with heit, "kind" or "sort." Alice therefore means literally "noble kind," usually given simply as "noble." In Marialice the two elements are fused into one written name, and its customary meaning is a girl's name that pairs a Marian name with Alice.
Marialice Name History & Origins
Marialice belongs to the Romance custom of building a girl's name from Maria plus a second name. In Italy, Maria was long the most common first element in female compound names such as Mariangela, Marialuisa, and Mariacristina, a pattern tied to the central place of the Virgin Mary in Italian Catholic devotion. Portuguese and Brazilian naming follows the same model, where Maria heads many two-part female names, among them Maria Alice, Maria Clara, and Maria Luísa. Marialice is the fused, single-word form of that pairing.
Alice came into Italian and Iberian use through French and Occitan forms of the Germanic name Adelais and remained in ordinary use as a given name in both regions. Compounds of this kind grow out of everyday naming practice rather than literature, and Marialice appears as a girl's name in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese usage.
How Popular is the Name Marialice?
Marialice has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1953. Its best rank was #3,213 in 1953.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | #4,387 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1963 | #7,236 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1960 | #6,949 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1958 | #4,764 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1957 | #3,847 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1955 | #3,318 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1954 | #3,430 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1953 | #3,213 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1952 | #3,485 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1949 | #4,515 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1946 | #5,416 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1945 | #3,891 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1944 | #5,011 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1943 | #5,104 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1940 | #4,790 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1938 | #4,154 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1937 | #3,675 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1935 | #4,056 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1931 | #3,397 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1930 | #4,367 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1928 | #4,039 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1926 | #4,135 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1925 | #4,758 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1917 | #5,037 | 5 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Marialice Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have psychic power. You can carry on for others with joy. You have a receptive nature and may bear burdens for others. You are pragmatic, thorough, strong-willed, practical and stubborn at times. You are hard working, often martyr to duty. You like home and security above all. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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