Alycia
Feminine · “Noble kind”
Alycia is Alicia with a y, and Alicia is Alice with a Latin ending. All of them go back to a Germanic compound meaning noble kind, which Old French wore down to two syllables and English has been decorating ever since.
How old is the name Alycia?
Alycia first appears in US birth records in 1935 — 90 years ago. The typical Alycia alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 9,900 people named Alycia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alycia most popular?
Alycia peaked in 1990, reaching #520 nationally. Today it ranks #5238, 4,718 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Alycia
The story of Alycia
Alice was one of the standard medieval English names, out of fashion by the eighteenth century and revived hard in the nineteenth — helped considerably by Carroll's Alice, published in 1865. The Latin-looking Alicia entered English separately and became common in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Its high point was the 1970s and 1980s, and the respellings crested just after: Alycia, Alysha, Alesha and Alisha all appear in the same decades. Alycia's American peak in 1990 sits at the far side of the family's run, which is the usual position for a variant.
Meaning
Noble kind, of noble sort
From the Germanic Adalheidis, from adal, noble, and heid, kind or sort. Old French shortened it to Aaliz and Alix, English took Alice, and Latinized forms produced Alicia and Alisha. The reading is settled. The y of Alycia is a twentieth-century American respelling with no separate history.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Alice
- Alicia
- Alycia
Related forms: Alicia · Alice · Alix · Adelheid · Alicja
Pronouncing Alycia
uh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish Alicia is ah-LEE-see-ah with four and a clear s. The y changes nothing in speech.
Nicknames for Alycia
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
- 1935
- Most girls named
- 1989410 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #520reached in 1990
- Change vs 2023
- −33.3%24 in 2025, from 36
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.
Alycia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alicia in Spanish — spelling variant
- Alice in English — related form
- Alix in French — related form
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alicja in Polish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Alycias among us
people named Alycia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was named Alycia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alycia
- #5238
- Alycia on the 2025 chart
- #395
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alycia went to 24 girls in 2025, but Alicia, Alysia and Alisia 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 — 4,843 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,143 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 66,969 for Alycia 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 Shirlene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alycia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shirlene climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shirlene's path sketches the road Alycia is walking now.
Alycia 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
Alycia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alycia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Germanic meaning is settled and flattering.
- Aly is an immediate, popular short form.
- It sits in one of the largest and best-documented name families in Europe.
- Alicia is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- Alicia, Alycia, Alisha, Alysha and Aleesha are five spellings of one sound.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s and 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alycias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,900 people named Alycia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alycia?
- Alycia is one of 4 recorded spellings. Alicia is the more common one — 672 births in 2025 against 24 for Alycia.
- How popular is the name Alycia in 2025?
- Alycia ranks #5238 among US girl names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alycia?
- About 1 in every 66,969 US girls born in 2025 was named Alycia — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alycia with classmates?
- Alycia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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