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Alecia

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Alecia is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Alecia mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages, one of the modern variants of Alicia.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Alecia a girl's or a boy's name?

Alecia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alecia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 27 girls.

Half of all the girls named Alecia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 27 in 20102022
Alecia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20223#5,885
20214#4,864
20206#3,630
20197#3,340
20188#3,068
201710#2,652
20168#3,105
201513#2,186
201418#1,722
201313#2,174
201218#1,756
201122#1,467
201027#1,262
200924#1,330
200817#1,679
200711#2,198
200611#2,119
200517#1,451
200417#1,399
20039#2,109
20028#2,231
20011#5,353
200012#1,593
19999#1,921
19986#2,535
19978#2,073
19967#2,201

How popular is Alecia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,553among girls
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 23% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Alecia, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 1987, with 362 girls. It first appears in the records in 1917.

Half of all the girls named Alecia in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 1994, the years shaded on the chart below.

1917Busiest: 362 in 19872025
Alecia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202413#7,962
202326#4,996
202217#6,702
202128#4,715
202020#5,846
201919#6,172
201840#3,738
201726#5,043
201638#3,923
201545#3,478
201446#3,423
201352#3,122
201272#2,516
201161#2,837
201088#2,202
200976#2,484
2008129#1,717
2007109#1,894
2006106#1,905
2005116#1,703
2004115#1,683
2003130#1,497
2002146#1,327
2001157#1,252
2000168#1,186
1999171#1,141
1998182#1,068
1997194#999
1996229#865
1995212#890
1994223#876
1993216#891
1992278#751
1991281#738
1990313#681
1989346#615
1988289#667
1987362#555
1986340#572
1985349#564
1984331#560
1983306#583
1982266#668
1981299#609
1980308#601
1979286#617
1978284#601
1977263#635
1976216#684
1975207#712
1974189#749
1973201#718
1972183#760
1971187#777
1970202#731
1969199#713
1968187#712
1967137#865
1966161#774
1965194#704
1964185#764
1963162#814
1962133#916
1961121#983
1960110#1,024
195988#1,134
195879#1,195
195776#1,210
195651#1,479
195562#1,274
195462#1,255
195355#1,311
195259#1,235
195137#1,554
195040#1,451
194929#1,766
194822#2,069
194729#1,789
194621#2,023
194521#1,824
194415#2,286
194317#2,150
19427#3,736
19418#3,250
19408#3,206
193910#2,734
19386#3,845
19376#3,798
19368#3,101
19358#3,154
19345#4,284
19339#2,867
19325#4,409
19310–
19300–
19297#3,680
19287#3,741
19270–
19268#3,563
19250–
19240–
19237#3,970
19225#5,007
19210–
19205#4,973
19190–
19180–
19176#4,081

Names like Alecia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Alecia

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Alecia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alecia, updated 20 October 2026.