Alicia: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced uh-LEE-shuh · 3 syllables

A Latinization of Alice, which is in turn from Old French Adelais, Germanic Adalheid.

How popular is Alicia?

Alicia was the #460 name in the US in 2025, given to 672 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 33% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1980.

Babies named Alicia in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1980).

Half of US adults named Alicia are older than 42; most are between 22 and 67. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Alicia have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Alicia is pronounced uh-LEE-shuh.

Alicia was the #460 name in the US in 2025, given to 672 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 33% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1980.

Half of US adults named Alicia are older than 42. Most are between 22 and 67.