Meaning not yet researched.
Alicia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 672 in 2025. Its best rank was #40 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #40 in 1984; #460 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alicia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#460 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #40.
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Alicia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 672 girls in 2025. Peak: #40 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 7,820 (1984).
In 2025, 672 US girls were named Alicia, making it the 460th most common girls’ name of the year, down 22 places from #438 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 708 girls named Alicia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #40, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,820. For comparison, it was #359 in 2015 and #276 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alicia in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 231,497 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 67,248 babies named Alicia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,639 US girls were named Alicia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 873. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,392 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alicia ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #235 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alice (590,106 babies since 1880), Alisa (34,727 babies since 1880), Elisha (30,034 babies since 1880) and Alecia (12,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alicea, Alissia and Allicia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Allie, Elsie and Lisa.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Aragonese, Galician and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alicea (1,185), Alissia (850), Allicia (689), Aleecia (665), Alacia (474), Allycia (348), Alizea (284), Aliscia (269), Alycea (242), Alazia (227), Alaycia (198), Allecia (175), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 29 | #235 | #290 |
| California | 122 | #269 | #212 |
| Texas | 123 | #279 | #238 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #304 | #121 |
| Massachusetts | 19 | #305 | #446 |
| Maryland | 17 | #306 | #416 |
| Florida | 54 | #331 | #247 |
| Nevada | 7 | #376 | #318 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #391 | #324 |
| Iowa | 8 | #394 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #406 | #318 |
| Washington | 17 | #415 | #283 |
| Illinois | 23 | #455 | #362 |
| Georgia | 23 | #488 | #414 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #489 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #499 | #362 |
| Virginia | 15 | #521 | #456 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #543 | #444 |
| Indiana | 11 | #580 | #509 |
| Oregon | 5 | #626 | #466 |
| New York | 26 | #630 | #333 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #648 | #600 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #655 | #634 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #661 | #567 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #707 | #676 |
| Ohio | 13 | #712 | #539 |
| Alabama | 6 | #719 | #311 |
| Missouri | 7 | #730 | #677 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #797 | #572 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,219 | #443 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 672 | #460 | — | — |
| 2024 | 708 | #438 | — | — |
| 2023 | 703 | #440 | — | — |
| 2022 | 760 | #414 | — | — |
| 2021 | 754 | #417 | — | — |
| 2020 | 753 | #414 | — | — |
| 2019 | 756 | #414 | — | — |
| 2018 | 794 | #391 | — | — |
| 2017 | 873 | #359 | — | — |
| 2016 | 866 | #380 | — | — |
| 2015 | 915 | #359 | — | — |
| 2014 | 978 | #341 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,024 | #318 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,205 | #270 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,231 | #260 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,433 | #219 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,562 | #208 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,866 | #177 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,950 | #178 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,133 | #164 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,345 | #148 | 5 | #11,532 |
| 2004 | 2,517 | #130 | 6 | #9,994 |
| 2003 | 2,542 | #131 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,820 | #121 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,658 | #130 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,762 | #121 | — | — |
| 1999 | 3,014 | #108 | — | — |
| 1998 | 3,408 | #98 | — | — |
| 1997 | 3,782 | #89 | 10 | #5,656 |
| 1996 | 3,861 | #91 | 9 | #5,994 |
| 1995 | 3,908 | #89 | 10 | #5,516 |
| 1994 | 4,105 | #83 | 10 | #5,463 |
| 1993 | 4,431 | #76 | 13 | #4,457 |
| 1992 | 4,910 | #71 | 13 | #4,331 |
| 1991 | 5,558 | #63 | 16 | #3,642 |
| 1990 | 6,511 | #54 | 23 | #2,781 |
| 1989 | 6,817 | #53 | 39 | #1,891 |
| 1988 | 6,700 | #50 | 29 | #2,146 |
| 1987 | 6,776 | #46 | 35 | #1,829 |
| 1986 | 7,017 | #45 | 33 | #1,838 |
| 1985 | 7,122 | #45 | 21 | #2,428 |
| 1984 | 7,820 | #40 | 33 | #1,724 |
| 1983 | 7,492 | #41 | 29 | #1,864 |
| 1982 | 5,614 | #53 | 22 | #2,270 |
| 1981 | 5,855 | #46 | 21 | #2,338 |
| 1980 | 5,753 | #47 | 20 | #2,445 |
| 1979 | 5,547 | #47 | 25 | #2,049 |
| 1978 | 4,752 | #58 | 20 | #2,280 |
| 1977 | 4,400 | #60 | 13 | #3,041 |
| 1976 | 3,791 | #71 | 18 | #2,419 |
| 1975 | 3,718 | #76 | 16 | #2,542 |
| 1974 | 3,434 | #90 | 19 | #2,201 |
| 1973 | 3,433 | #91 | 14 | #2,608 |
| 1972 | 3,268 | #96 | 22 | #1,928 |
| 1971 | 3,590 | #105 | 21 | #1,988 |
| 1970 | 3,320 | #118 | 12 | #2,740 |
| 1969 | 3,046 | #117 | 6 | #3,949 |
| 1968 | 2,569 | #126 | 9 | #2,909 |
| 1967 | 2,304 | #150 | 8 | #2,989 |
| 1966 | 2,227 | #156 | — | — |
| 1965 | 2,354 | #159 | 10 | #2,622 |
| 1964 | 2,417 | #159 | 7 | #3,293 |
| 1963 | 2,215 | #173 | 8 | #3,045 |
| 1962 | 1,976 | #187 | 8 | #3,046 |
| 1961 | 1,674 | #206 | 8 | #3,103 |
| 1960 | 1,640 | #210 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,366 | #231 | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1958 | 1,049 | #273 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,101 | #260 | 7 | #3,262 |
| 1956 | 1,037 | #265 | 6 | #3,544 |
| 1955 | 1,029 | #262 | 8 | #2,969 |
| 1954 | 923 | #279 | — | — |
| 1953 | 914 | #272 | — | — |
| 1952 | 875 | #273 | — | — |
| 1951 | 826 | #272 | — | — |
| 1950 | 768 | #276 | — | — |
| 1949 | 707 | #291 | — | — |
| 1948 | 687 | #291 | — | — |
| 1947 | 747 | #282 | — | — |
| 1946 | 562 | #312 | — | — |
| 1945 | 460 | #314 | — | — |
| 1944 | 424 | #333 | — | — |
| 1943 | 394 | #363 | 5 | #3,552 |
| 1942 | 360 | #373 | 5 | #3,577 |
| 1941 | 358 | #346 | 8 | #2,660 |
| 1940 | 309 | #373 | 6 | #3,139 |
| 1939 | 354 | #337 | 6 | #3,120 |
| 1938 | 313 | #370 | — | — |
| 1937 | 274 | #391 | — | — |
| 1936 | 274 | #384 | — | — |
| 1935 | 223 | #431 | — | — |
| 1934 | 237 | #426 | — | — |
| 1933 | 232 | #420 | — | — |
| 1932 | 251 | #410 | 5 | #3,788 |
| 1931 | 289 | #380 | — | — |
| 1930 | 334 | #370 | — | — |
| 1929 | 301 | #388 | — | — |
| 1928 | 293 | #389 | — | — |
| 1927 | 308 | #389 | — | — |
| 1926 | 270 | #415 | 5 | #4,216 |
| 1925 | 228 | #457 | — | — |
| 1924 | 219 | #469 | — | — |
| 1923 | 185 | #514 | — | — |
| 1922 | 164 | #556 | — | — |
| 1921 | 141 | #615 | — | — |
| 1920 | 149 | #587 | — | — |
| 1919 | 125 | #626 | — | — |
| 1918 | 118 | #647 | — | — |
| 1917 | 110 | #650 | — | — |
| 1916 | 95 | #706 | — | — |
| 1915 | 75 | #761 | — | — |
| 1914 | 54 | #789 | — | — |
| 1913 | 57 | #690 | — | — |
| 1912 | 46 | #735 | — | — |
| 1911 | 44 | #650 | — | — |
| 1910 | 31 | #769 | — | — |
| 1909 | 32 | #707 | — | — |
| 1908 | 36 | #639 | — | — |
| 1907 | 21 | #820 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #918 | — | — |
| 1905 | 16 | #929 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #806 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #897 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #887 | — | — |
| 1899 | 15 | #838 | — | — |
| 1898 | 17 | #821 | — | — |
| 1897 | 14 | #867 | — | — |
| 1896 | 12 | #953 | — | — |
| 1895 | 15 | #817 | — | — |
| 1894 | 14 | #813 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #826 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #909 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1890 | 12 | #791 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #840 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #838 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #862 | — | — |
| 1886 | 11 | #694 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #794 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #695 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #742 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #682 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).