Alicia

What Alicia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alicia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alicia?

US: Falling: down from #359 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #179 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1984, when 7,820 girls got the name (#40 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 2,392 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,247 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), AZ (1.03 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.85 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alicia is #460 in the US and #514 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alicia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elisia41 US · 3 E&W
• Alesia32 US · 8 E&W
• Alysia28 US · 5 E&W
• Alisia26 US · 6 E&W
• Elicia31 US
• Alycia24 US
• Alissia11 US · 13 E&W
• Alecia22 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Aleshia
• Alisha
• Alyshia
• Alyssa
• Alycia
• Alissia
• Alisia

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Alicia

Girls

• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Karla#799Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 2,060 babies; 340 in 2025

For a brother

• Ronald#637“advice + power”^*
• Richard#234“king, ruler + hard, brave”^*
• Robert#92“shining glory”^*
• Raymond#394“advice + protection”^*
• Frank#513Form of Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alicia’s. Rank is US 2025.