Alicia
About 231,497 American babies have been named Alicia since 1881, most of them around 1984. In 2025 it ranked 460th. About 214,000 Alicias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alicia boys named Alicia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 231,497
- Estimated living today
- 214,000
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 40th
- Rank in 2025
- 460th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 230,790 / 707
How old the living Alicias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 231,497 babies given the name since 1881, about 214,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
A Latinization of Alice, which is in turn from Old French Adelais, Germanic Adalheid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alicias
- Alicia Vikander (born 1988)Swedish actress
- Alicia Silverstone (born 1976)American actress
- Alicia Witt (born 1975)American actress and singer-songwriter
- Alicia Alonso (1920–2019)Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer
- Alicia de Larrocha (1923–2009)Spanish-Catalan pianist
- Alicia Molik (born 1981)Australian tennis player
- Alicia Garza (born 1981)American activist and writer
- Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885–1986)British-born Argentine politician
People named Alicia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alicia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alicia is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.0×), Nevada (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×), Texas (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Alicia peaked:
Alicia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alicia | 52,995 | 38th |
| Spain girls | Alicia | 23,068 | 27th |
| England and Wales girls | Alicia | 13,434 | 60th |
| Sweden girls | Alicia | 10,449 | 2nd |
| Belgium girls | Alicia | 4,195 | 38th |
| Switzerland girls | Alicia | 2,788 | 43rd |
| Ireland girls | Alicia | 1,313 | 94th |
| Scotland girls | Alicia | 1,041 | 81st |
| Italy girls | Alicia | 993 | — |
| New Zealand girls | Alicia | 683 | 69th |
| Poland girls | Alicia | 615 birth registrations | 178th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alicia | 428 | 51st |
| Norway girls | Alicia | 424 | 232nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alicia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alicia | 1,312 | 0.105% | 53rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alicia | 1,439 | 0.331% | 8th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alicia | 34 | 0.052% | 50th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alicia | 3 | 0.081% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alicia is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.35% of children were given it – 244 of them.
Alicia: rank by region
In 2025, Alicia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alicia | 193 | 29 |
| Wallonia | Alicia | 264 | 10 |
| Brussels | Alicia | 132 | 8 |
In 2024, Alicia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principado de Asturias | Alicia | 9 | 29 |
In 2019, Alicia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alicia | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Alicia was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Alicia | 190 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Alicia | 232 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Alicia | 219 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alicia appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (103rd), Brussels-Capital Region (132nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alicia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 128 | 135th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alicia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Alicia | 2,424 | 4,185 |
| Finland girls | Alicia | 496 | 1,010 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alicia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 101,069 women called Alicia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Alicia | 491 | 6.228 | 23 |
| Ávila | Alicia | 493 | 6.165 | 28 |
| Ciudad Real | Alicia | 1,507 | 6.044 | 35 |
| Valladolid | Alicia | 1,629 | 6.005 | 31 |
| Guadalajara | Alicia | 792 | 5.635 | 26 |
| Cuenca | Alicia | 557 | 5.633 | 32 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alicia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.