Alica
Feminine · “Noble kind”
Remove one letter from Alicia and the c changes its job. In Alicia the i after the c softens it into a sh; in Alica there is nothing to soften it, and the letter falls back on its hard value. One deleted vowel turns a-LEE-shuh into AL-i-kuh, which is a great deal of work for a letter that says nothing itself.
How old is the name Alica?
Alica first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Alica alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 1,200 people named Alica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alica most popular?
Alica peaked in 1968, reaching #2164 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alica
The story of Alica
This spelling is not only an American variant. Alica is the standard form of Alice in Slovak, where it is an ordinary name with an ordinary pronunciation, and Slovak spelling is regular enough that nobody there has to think about the c: it is always a ts sound, so the name is AH-lee-tsa and could not be anything else. English has no such guarantee. Its c inherited two values from Latin by way of French, hard before a, o and u and soft before e, i and y, and every English speaker applies that rule without being taught it. When an American family drops the i from Alicia, they are usually writing the name they already say; when a Slovak family writes Alica, they are writing the only spelling available.
Meaning
Noble kind
The name descends from a Germanic compound joining a word for noble to one meaning sort or kind, worn down through French to Alice and then Latinized back up to Alicia. The meaning belongs to the whole chain and none of the respellings alters it. What the respellings alter is how the name is read aloud, and this one alters it more than most.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Alice
- Alicia
- Alica
Related forms: Alica · Alice · Alicia · Adelheid
Pronouncing Alica
AL-i-kuh
Three syllables with the stress at the front if the spelling is read as English. Families who intend it as a form of Alicia say a-LEE-shuh regardless, and Slovak speakers say AH-lee-tsa. All three are current and the spelling supports each.
Nicknames for Alica
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most girls named
- 198440 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2164reached in 1968
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%7 in 2009, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alica in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alica in Slovak — same name
- Alice in Czech — related form
- Alicia in Spanish — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
Alicas among us
people named Alica are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Alica sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a real and standard name in central Europe rather than an American invention.
- Short, clean and free of silent letters once the reading has been settled.
- Ali and Ally are both current everyday forms available immediately.
- Three live pronunciations, and the spelling chooses none of them, so the name has to be introduced.
- Alicia is overwhelmingly commoner in America and will be assumed by anyone taking dictation.
- The hard c reading is what an English reader will produce cold, which may not be what the family intends.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alicas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Alica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alica in 2025?
- Alica is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Alica with classmates?
- Alica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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