How Many People Are Named Alicia?

214,012

people named Alicia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 1,597 people in the US has this name

Based on 231,497 babies named Alicia in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#257

⭐ Uncommon

Rank Among Girl Names

#128

See the top 100

Peak Year

1984

7,853 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, English
Pronunciation: a-LEE-thya (European Spanish), a-LEE-sya (Latin American Spanish), Ι™-LEE-shΙ™ (English), Ι™-LEE-see-Ι™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Latinized form of ALICE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Alicia in English. Counting Alicia and these spellings together, about 301,976 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.7%
Male
0.3%

Almost all of the babies given the name Alicia (99.7%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Alicia alive today is about 40 years old, and 66% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 49 in 2025.

Under 30 51,136
23.9%
30 to 59 140,395
65.6%
60 and over 22,481
10.5%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Alicia first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1984, to 7,853 babies. In 2025, 672 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Alicia never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #40, in 1984, and it was in the top 100 for 27 years, 1972 to 1998. In 2025 it ranked #460.

Girls
Rank in 2025#460
Best rank#40 (1984)
Years in the top 10027 (1972 to 1998)
Rank in its biggest decade#46 in the 1980s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Alicia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alicia were born in California than in any other state: about 30,586 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alicia was given 1.9 times as often in New Mexico, 1.6 times in Nevada and 1.5 times in Arizona.

California 30,586
Texas 21,237
New York 14,384
Florida 9,447
Illinois 9,265
Pennsylvania 8,974
Michigan 8,158
Ohio 7,862
Georgia 5,517
New Jersey 5,362
Massachusetts 4,900
North Carolina 4,774
Arizona 4,425
Indiana 4,399
Washington 4,275
Missouri 3,969
Tennessee 3,844
Louisiana 3,794
Virginia 3,688
Minnesota 3,476
Wisconsin 3,300
Alabama 3,193
Colorado 3,104
Maryland 2,783
Kentucky 2,583
Oklahoma 2,566
Connecticut 2,549
South Carolina 2,456
Oregon 2,445
New Mexico 2,239
Iowa 2,214
Mississippi 2,167
Kansas 2,064
Arkansas 1,881
Utah 1,828
Nebraska 1,349
Nevada 1,332
West Virginia 1,265
District of Columbia 1,024
Rhode Island 998
Maine 915
Idaho 891
New Hampshire 734
Hawaii 678
North Dakota 541
South Dakota 528
Montana 517
Alaska 438
Delaware 437
Wyoming 341
Vermont 330

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