Alicia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alicia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In El Salvador it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Used for women; means “truth”.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 247(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 447
- ESSpain1 in 495
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #344 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 247 (inferred from the name graph)
242,747 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Used for women; means “truth.” Said to come from several languages: Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Hawaiian.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alicia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #788 | 242,747 | 1 in 1.4K | 242K | Alicia | 504 |
| AR Argentina | #61 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 247 | 124 | Alicia | 148 |
| PH Philippines | #438 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Alicia | 100 |
| ES Spain | #73 | 101,069 | 1 in 495 | 101K | Alicia | 239 |
| BR Brazil | #914 | 84,293 | 1 in 2.5K | 84K | Alicia | 133 |
| PE Peru | #91 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | — | Alicia | 94 |
| PY Paraguay | #887 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 447 | — | Alicia | 44 |
| SV El Salvador | #34 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 781 | — | Alicia | 59 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,542 | 1 in 487 | 1.5K | — | — |
242,747 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alicia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Latinised form of Alice; occasionally used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, Greek; wise counsellor or the truthful one.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Modern Latinate form of pAlice. Variants: Alissa, Alyssa. __ Pet form: Alfie. ALICK
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish form of Alice (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alicia Boole Stottb. 1860GBIrish-English mathematician (1860-1940)
- Alicia Rhettb. 1915USAmerican actress and portrait painter (1915–2014)
- Alicia de Larrochab. 1923ESSpanish-Catalan pianist (1923–2009)
- Jodie Fosterb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1962)
- Alicia Wittb. 1975USAmerican actress and singer-songwriter (born 1975)
- Alicia Silverstoneb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Lellowb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1981)
- Alicia Foxb. 1986USAmerican professional wrestler
- Alicia Vikanderb. 1988SESwedish actress (born 1988)
- Ana Guerrab. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish pop singer (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 119 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 242K | #230 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 101K | #92 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 101K | #47 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 84K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 84K | #363 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23K | #1,263 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.5K | #22 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 672 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 427 | #363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 362 | #230 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 124 | #675 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alicia come from?
- Used for women; means “truth.” Said to come from several languages: Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Hawaiian. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What are other forms of the name Alicia?
- In the etymology graph, Alice, Allison and Alison are forms of the same name in other languages; Lecia is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Alicia a male or female name?
- Alicia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Alicia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Used for women; means “truth.”
- In which country does Alicia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 243 thousand people named Alicia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alicia.
- How common is the name Alicia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 242,747 people named Alicia in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Alicia compared with other names?
- In the United States, Alicia is the 788th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alicia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aliciaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alicia” — the 788th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.