Jalicia
Feminine
Jalicia joins a front syllable to a Latin-shaped ending. That front was, for a stretch of the later twentieth century, the single most productive piece in American naming, attaching to almost anything and producing hundreds of names.
How old is the name Jalicia?
Jalicia first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Jalicia alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 700 people named Jalicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalicia most popular?
Jalicia peaked in 1988, reaching #3165 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalicia
Count the names in the American record beginning with that one syllable and the list runs into the hundreds: it combined with endings borrowed from Latin, French, Spanish and thin air, and it did so across two decades with a productivity that very few naming elements ever achieve. Linguists who have studied the pattern describe it as a genuine word-formation system with constraints, not a free-for-all: certain combinations sound right and others do not, and speakers agree about which without being able to explain the rule. That is exactly how the rest of the language works, operating on names instead of sentences.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been documented. The ending resembles Alicia and Felicia, which are unrelated names, and the front is a free element that carries no sense of its own.
Pronouncing Jalicia
juh-LEE-shuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The c does the work of an sh, as it does in Alicia.
Nicknames for Jalicia
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
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 200733 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3165reached in 1988
- Change vs 2023
- +100.0%10 in 2024, from 5
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.
Jalicias among us
people named Jalicia 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
Jalicia 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
- Licia and Jay are both available as short forms and both work on their own.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects, so first attempts land correctly.
- Three soft syllables carry well and are easy to hear across a room.
- Jalisa, Jelicia and Jalesha are all in the record and will be confused with it.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
- It belongs audibly to one stretch of American naming, which places it in time for some listeners.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalicias 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 Jalicia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jalicia in 2025?
- Jalicia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jalicia with classmates?
- Jalicia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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