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Elicia

Feminine · “noble kind”

1942high 1983
#4460 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare31 girls in 2025

Elicia is a spelling near Alicia, and Alicia descends from Adelheid — a Germanic compound that also gave Adelaide and Alice.

How old is the name Elicia?

Elicia first appears in US birth records in 1942 — 83 years ago. The typical Elicia alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 4,200 people named Elicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Elicia most popular?

Elicia peaked in 1983, reaching #1071 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 3,389 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Elicia

Ours, offered as ours. Adelheid produced two names that look entirely unrelated: Adelaide, which kept the shape, and Alice, which lost most of it through Old French — Adelis, Aalis, Alis, Alice. Then Latin scribes re-elaborated Alice back into Alicia, so the name has been shortened and lengthened again over eight hundred years. Elicia is one more turn of that. The Elysian fields are a separate and pleasanter possibility.

Meaningscholars disagree

noble kind

Alicia is the Latinate form of Alice, from Germanic adal, noble, and heid, kind or sort. A separate reading connects Elicia to Elysia, of the Elysian fields. Neither is documented for this spelling.

Pronouncing Elicia

uh-LEE-shah

Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say ee-LEE-see-ah.

Nicknames for Elicia

Moderate

ElliThe front of the name
LiciaTakes the back of the name
LisaA sound-based form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1942–20251296501293119422025

US babies named Elicia per year from 1942 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#10711940s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1942
Most girls named
1983129 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1071reached in 1983
Change vs 2023
−22.5%31 in 2025, from 40
Elicia sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1983, with 129 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Elicia in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Alicia in English — spelling variant
  • Elisa in Spanish — related form
  • Adelheid in German — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.

Elicias among us

4,200

people named Elicia are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Elicia

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Elicia

#4460
Elicia on the 2025 chart
#736
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elicia went to 31 girls in 2025, but Elysia, Elisia and Elycia are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 226, which makes it the 736th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,724 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 7,112 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Elicia 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

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Is it right for you

The Sabrena test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elicia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sabrena climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sabrena's path sketches the road Elicia is walking now.

40%chance Elicia will feel dated by 2040
Elicia, aligned on its peakSabrena· peak 1967not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+60 yrsSabrena · #15251Elicia today
Elicia today is about where Sabrena stood in 2009 — 42 years past a #1071-sized peak. By 2024, Sabrena had settled around #15251.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Elicia 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 Elicia is headed

19422030

US babies named Elicia per year, 1942 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Elicia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-13% by 2030projected around #4,769 in 2030

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.

Elicia beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Elicia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Eliciathis name31#4460Jayce31#4460Nikita31#4460Magali31#4460Emari31#4460

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Elli and Lisa are both usable short forms with their own records.
  • A genuinely long documented chain of erosion behind it.
  • Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
What to consider
  • Alicia is the standard spelling and will be assumed and written.
  • The stress and syllable count are both unsettled.
  • Elicia, Alicia, Elisia and Alisha are all in use and only Alicia is common.

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Frequently asked

How many Elicias are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,200 people named Elicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Elicia?
Elicia is one of 4 recorded spellings. Elysia is the more common one — 149 births in 2025 against 31 for Elicia.
How popular is the name Elicia in 2025?
Elicia ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Elicia?
About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Elicia — 31 in all.
Will my child share the name Elicia with classmates?
Elicia will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Elicia

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Jayce#4460 · Nikita#4460 · Magali#4460 · Emari#4460 · Rilyn#4460 · Danyla#4460 · Lynleigh#4460 · Mandy#4460

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