Alicia
Alicia was the 460th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 672 babies. Its best year was 1984, when it ranked 40th with 7,820 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 101 places. More babies were named Alicia in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Meaning Latinized form of Alice ('noble kind') · Germanic, Latin
Say it uh-LEE-shuh /əˈliʃə/
- Rank in 2025
- #460 girls, down 46 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 672girls
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 19847,820 babies
- Total since 1880
- 231,497babies recorded
What does the name Alicia mean?
Alicia is a Latinized form of Alice, as Wiktionary notes. DMNES derives Alice from Old High German adalheit, "nobility", from adal, "noble", and heit, "kind, sort", and calls Alice one of the most lasting names of medieval Europe. Medieval English Latin records already write the name Alicia, as DMNES attestations from the 12th and 13th centuries show. Alicia is now especially common in Spanish-speaking families and in English.
adal (Old High German, “noble”)heit (Old High German, “kind, sort”)
How sure is this? Well established.
Related names: Alice, Alisha, Alyssa, Adelaide.
See also: Germanic names, names that mean noble.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Alicia', Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (ed. S. L. Uckelman), Edition 2023 no. 1, s.v. 'Alice', DMNES, Durham University
Nicknames for Alicia
The usual nicknames for Alicia are Ali. Some parents skip the long form: for every 100 girls named Alicia in the last five years, 11 were named Ali, against 9 twenty years earlier.
| Nickname | Kind | Rank 2025 | Girls, 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali · also for Aliza, Allison | Modern | #3,463 | 380 |
Nicknames reviewed by our editors; counts are girls given the nickname as their legal first name. Nobody records how many Alicias go by each one.
Alicia popularity since 1880
A few boys are given the name too: 707 since 1926.
| Year | Rank (girls) | Babies (girls) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #460 | 672 |
| 2020 | #414 | 753 |
| 2010 | #219 | 1,433 |
| 2000 | #121 | 2,762 |
| 1990 | #54 | 6,511 |
| 1980 | #47 | 5,753 |
| 1970 | #118 | 3,320 |
| 1960 | #210 | 1,640 |
| 1950 | #276 | 768 |
| 1940 | #373 | 309 |
| 1930 | #370 | 334 |
| 1920 | #587 | 149 |
| 1910 | #769 | 31 |
| 1900 | #887 | 18 |
| 1890 | #791 | 12 |
| 1880 | — | — |
How popular is Alicia, counting every spelling?
Alicia is the most common spelling of a name family that ranked #430 for girls in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #460 for Alicia on its own. Together these spellings went to 763 girls in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia | 672 | #460 | 3,597 |
| Alycia | 24 | #5,251 | 173 |
| Alyssia | 30 | #4,552 | 149 |
| Alisia | 26 | #4,992 | 105 |
| Alissia | 11 | #8,891 | 45 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Alicia?
672 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Alicia (0.19 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Alicia born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 12 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Alicia.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Alicia?
About 212,700 people born in the US named Alicia are alive today, with a median age of 40; half are between 31 and 50. That makes Alicia mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Alicia by state
How common Alicia was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Arizona (2.1×), New Mexico (2.0×), Texas (1.9×), California (1.8×), Nevada (1.7×). It is least common, relative to the national rate, in Mississippi, Iowa, Louisiana.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Alicia: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Alicia, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Alicia · Sibling names for Alicia
Questions about the name Alicia
What does Alicia mean?
Alicia means “Latinized form of Alice ('noble kind')” (Germanic, Latin origin). Certainty: well established.
How popular is the name Alicia?
Alicia was the 460th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 672 babies. Its best year was 1984, when it ranked 40th with 7,820 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 101 places. More babies were named Alicia in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Is Alicia a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Alicia in the US.
Where is Alicia most popular?
In 2021–2025, Alicia was most common in Arizona (0.92 per 1,000 girls), followed by New Mexico and Texas.