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You mean Alicorn is a real name? I had assumed a combination of Alison and Unicorn, with symbolic implications beyond my ken.
"Ye-vane" here, with the caveat that I was quite confident that it was way off.
No, it's not a real name (as far as I know). It's a real word. It means a unicorn's horn, although there are some modern misuses mostly spearheaded by Piers Anthony (gag hack cough).
Ahh. And I've been going about calling them well, unicorn horns all these years!