Alicia

Where Alicia comes from

A Latinization of Alice, which is in turn from Old French Adelais, Germanic Adalheid.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alicia
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #679 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Alicia Silverstone born
    American actress
  3. 1984
    Peak, #40
    7,820 babies named Alicia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1988
    Alicia Vikander born
    Swedish actress
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #89.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Alicia Vikander · Swedish actress, born 1988
  • Alicia Silverstone · American actress, born 1976
  • Alicia Witt · American actress and singer-songwriter, born 1975
  • Alicia Alonso · Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer, 1920–2019
  • Alicia de Larrocha · Spanish-Catalan pianist, 1923–2009

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.