Alisia
Feminine · “noble kind”
Alisia is one of a crowd of spellings for a sound that arrived in English through Latin, French and Spanish in turn. Underneath is Adalheid, the Germanic noble kind, which shed a syllable in every century it passed through until only Alice was left; Alicia and Alisia are the Latinized form coming back the other way.
How old is the name Alisia?
Alisia first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Alisia alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 3,800 people named Alisia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alisia most popular?
Alisia peaked in 1984, reaching #1355 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 3,632 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alisia
The story of Alisia
The path is unusually clear: a long Germanic compound, shortened by French speech, taken into English, then re-lengthened by Latin-writing clerks who needed a formal version for documents. Spanish took the clerks' spelling and made it ordinary. Italian has Alisia as a genuine regional form. In American records the single-s spelling appears alongside Alicia, Alysia and Alisha, all of them said much the same way and none of them clearly standard.
Meaning
noble kind; of noble sort
Germanic adal, noble, joined to heid, kind or sort. Old French reduced Adalheidis to Aliz, English took that as Alice, and medieval Latin documents wrote it back as Alicia, which Spanish and Italian adopted.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aliz
- Alice
- Alicia
- Alisia
Related forms: Alicia · Alisia · Alice · Adelheid · Alix
Pronouncing Alisia
uh-LEE-see-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Some families say uh-LEE-shuh with three, which is how Alicia is usually said in English, and both are used.
Nicknames for Alisia
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
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 1998104 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1355reached in 1984
- Change vs 2023
- +62.5%26 in 2025, from 16
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.
Alisia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alicia in Spanish — spelling variant
- Alisia in Italian — same name
- Alice in English — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alix in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Alisias among us
people named Alisia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Alisia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alisia
- #4987
- Alisia on the 2025 chart
- #395
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alisia went to 26 girls in 2025, but Alicia, Alysia and Alycia are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 750, which makes it the 395th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,592 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,143 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Alisia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Karole test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alisia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karole climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karole's path sketches the road Alisia is walking now.
Alisia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alisia is headed
Alisia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alisia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alisia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a documented Germanic name with one of the most productive histories in Europe.
- Ali and Sia are ready short forms and both are complete names.
- It has a genuine Italian home as well as being an American respelling.
- Alicia, Alisia, Alysia and Alisha are said almost identically and written four ways.
- Two pronunciations circulate and the spelling settles neither.
- It reads as belonging to a particular stretch of American decades.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alisias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Alisia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alisia?
- Alisia is one of 4 recorded spellings. Alicia is the more common one — 672 births in 2025 against 26 for Alisia.
- How popular is the name Alisia in 2025?
- Alisia ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alisia?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Alisia — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alisia with classmates?
- Alisia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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