The Spanish form of French Alice, Alicia goes back to the name Adelheid. It contains the Old High German word parts “adal” for “noble, distinguished” and “haidu” for “manner, shape”.
Alicia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Alicia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Alicia ranks 337. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Alicia. In the entire USA, approximately 224,525 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alicia. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
#40 - this is the highest position Alicia has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Alicia reached this top spot at the end of the past century in 1984 when 7,853newborn girls were named Alicia. But as our statistics show, Alicia hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1884, it was given to newborns not at all or at least less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics only if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Alicia has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well in our modern times. From zero to hero – even if its peak is in the past, Alicia has become a fashionable name after all.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alicia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 757 newborn girls were given the name Alicia, making this first name #381. Towards the end of the last century, the name had a real flight of fancy and still captivates many people today − just like the music of the 80s. So, the chances to meet a young Alicia are still quite high.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Alicia. Because: There are women and girls named Alicia in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Alicia is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Arizona, where Alicia ranks on place 70. The greatest chance of meeting Alicia, however, is in New Mexico, where one in 317 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 687 women and girls and in West Virginia, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,099 women and girls for their name before you once get Alicia as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Alicia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alicia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alicia, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Cat
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alicia
Alicia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
I
C
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
I
C
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alicia sounds like this:
