Alicea
Feminine · “Noble kind”
Alicea transposes the last two letters of Alicia and changes nothing at all. Both endings are unstressed, both are reduced to the same neutral sound, and the swap belongs to a small class of respellings that operate only on a name's final two letters and leave everything else alone.
How old is the name Alicea?
Alicea first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Alicea alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,200 people named Alicea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alicea most popular?
Alicea peaked in 1984, reaching #2781 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
Where it comes from
From Alice to Alicea
Our story of Alicea
There is a whole category of American respellings that work at the very end of a name and nowhere else. Swapping the last two letters, adding a silent e, changing an a to an ah, replacing a y with an i: each of these leaves the stressed part of the name untouched, which is what makes them safe. The stressed syllable is where a change would be heard, and a change that can be heard risks the name being mispronounced; a change at the unstressed end costs nothing and still produces a spelling nobody else has. That is a real design constraint operating on thousands of families independently, and it explains why respellings cluster so heavily in the last two or three letters of a name rather than being distributed evenly across it.
Meaning
Noble kind
The Germanic compound behind Alice joins a word meaning noble to one meaning sort or kind, and Alicia is the Latinized form that medieval clerks used in documents. The transposition here alters no sound and no sense; it produces a different-looking name from the same one.
How the name formed
- Alice
- Alicia
- Alicea
Related forms: Alicia · Alicia
Pronouncing Alicea
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle, said exactly as Alicia. The ci in the standard spelling and the ce here both produce a sh sound before a final vowel, which is why the swap is inaudible.
Nicknames for Alicea
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
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 199636 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2781reached in 1984
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%6 in 2024, from 6
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.
Alicea in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alicia in Spanish — same name
- Alicia in Italian — same name
Aliceas among us
people named Alicea 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
Alicea 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
- The spoken name is completely established and never needs to be repeated.
- Ali and Lisa are two short forms with nothing in common.
- The name has a documented line running back to a Germanic compound.
- Alicia is enormously commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The transposition is inaudible, so the spelling cannot be defended in speech.
- It will be read as a typing error rather than a choice.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aliceas 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 Alicea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alicea in 2025?
- Alicea is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Alicea with classmates?
- Alicea will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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