Allicia
Feminine · “noble kind”
Allicia doubles a letter that is single in French, in Latin and in the Germanic compound behind all of it. The doubling changes nothing audible and puts an English word at the front of the name that has nothing to do with it.
How old is the name Allicia?
Allicia first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Allicia alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 700 people named Allicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Allicia most popular?
Allicia peaked in 1986, reaching #2724 nationally. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Allicia
The story of Allicia
The Latin verb ligare, to bind, is a quiet workhorse in English. An alliance is a binding-to: the same ad plus ligare that gives ally and allied. An obligation is a binding-towards, which is exactly what it feels like. Religion may be built on it too — the ancient etymologists argued between a root meaning to bind fast and one meaning to read again, and the question has never been settled. A ligature is a binding in surgery, in typography and in music. Liable and rely come through the same door. And the humble word league, in the sense of an association of states or clubs, is the same root through Italian. It is one of the better demonstrations that abstract vocabulary is nearly always built out of something physical, and the physical thing here is rope.
Meaning
noble kind
From a Germanic compound joining a word for noble to one meaning kind or sort, shortened drastically in French and then relatinised. The doubled l here is a modern spelling choice; no source language doubles it.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Alice
- Alicia
- Allicia
Pronouncing Allicia
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled l does not lengthen or shorten anything; the name is said exactly as the single-l spelling is.
Nicknames for Allicia
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 198937 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2724reached in 1986
- Change vs 2008
- −11.1%8 in 2012, from 9
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.
Allicias among us
people named Allicia 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
Allicia 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
- Middle stress on three syllables is the most comfortable rhythm English offers.
- Ali comes off it at once and needs no explanation anywhere.
- The descent is documented all the way back to a Germanic compound.
- Alicia, Alisha and Alecia are all far commoner and will be written for it.
- The doubled letter is silent, so the spelling must be given aloud every time.
- The name has two accepted pronunciations in English, and a bearer will be correcting one of them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Allicias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Allicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Allicia in 2025?
- Allicia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Allicia with classmates?
- Allicia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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