Annalicia
Feminine · “grace”
Spanish gives children two first names and says both. Ana Lucia, Ana Sofia, Maria Jose, Juan Carlos — the pair is a unit, and the second half is never dropped. Annalicia is one of those pairs closed up into a single word, which is how a great many American names in the southwest were made.
How old is the name Annalicia?
Annalicia first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Annalicia alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 800 people named Annalicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annalicia most popular?
Annalicia peaked in 2007, reaching #3918 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 8,014 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ana Alicia to Annalicia
The story of Annalicia
Double given names are the norm rather than the exception in Spanish, and Ana is one of the two or three commonest first elements, which is why Ana Maria, Ana Lucia, Ana Isabel and Ana Alicia are everywhere. The pair is treated as a single name: a child called Ana Sofia is not called Ana. When those families' records passed through English-speaking institutions the space tended to disappear, and the two names became one — the same thing that happened to Mary Ann in the American South, arriving from a completely different tradition. The spelling with two n's is the tell that the closing-up happened in English: Spanish writes Ana.
Meaning
grace, joined to noble
Ana is Hebrew Hannah, grace or favor. Alicia is the Latinized form of Alice, from Germanic adal, noble. Both halves have documented meanings; the compound has none of its own beyond joining them. The doubled n is English rather than Spanish, where the name is written with one.
How the name formed
- Ana Alicia
- Annalicia
Related forms: Analicia
Pronouncing Annalicia
ah-nah-LEE-see-ah
Five syllables in Spanish, stress on the third. English speakers usually say an-uh-LEE-shuh, with four and a sh in the middle, because English turns ci before a vowel into sh.
Nicknames for Annalicia
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200740 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3918reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −66.7%7 in 2025, from 21
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.
Annalicia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Analicia in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Colorado, New Mexico.
Annalicias among us
people named Annalicia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Annalicia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Annalicia
- #11932
- Annalicia on the 2025 chart
- #925
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Annalicia went to 7 girls in 2025, but Analicia and Annalisia are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 35, which makes it the 925th most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,007 places above the chart.
- Analicia23
- Annalicia7
- Annalisia5
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Annalicia 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 Liliane test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Annalicia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Liliane climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Liliane's path sketches the road Annalicia is walking now.
Annalicia 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
Annalicia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Annalicia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are ordinary, familiar names with documented meanings.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names in their own right.
- It belongs to a real naming tradition rather than being assembled from syllables.
- Five syllables in Spanish and four in English, so the name changes shape depending on who is saying it.
- Analicia, Annalisia and Analisia are all in use, so the spelling will need giving.
- It will be shortened to Ana by almost everyone outside the family.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annalicias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Annalicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Annalicia?
- Annalicia is one of 3 recorded spellings. Analicia is the more common one — 23 births in 2025 against 7 for Annalicia.
- How popular is the name Annalicia in 2025?
- Annalicia ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Annalicia?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Annalicia — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Annalicia with classmates?
- Annalicia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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