Alecia

Where Alecia comes from

The dictionaries list Alecia as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, one of the modern variants of Alicia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Alecia McKenzie born
    Jamaiacan novelist
  3. 1982
    Alecia Elliott born
    Country music singer, actress
  4. 1987
    Peak, #555
    362 babies named Alecia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,143.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, one of the modern variants of Alicia.
Namesakes
  • Alecia Elliott · Country music singer, actress, born 1982
  • Alecia McKenzie · Jamaiacan novelist, born 1960

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.