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Alicen

Gender
Girl
Say it
AL-ih-sin
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Alicen is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble kind”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Alicen mean?

Germanic: variant of Alison, a French pet form of Alice

“noble kind”

Alice comes from Adalheidis, the same Germanic source as Adelaide.

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

Alicen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alicen in the US?

Rank in 2025
11,928th among girls
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 39% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Alicen, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 1993, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1965.

2025 had fewer girls named Alicen than any year since 1974.

Half of all the girls named Alicen in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 3,160 girls in the US were given Alicen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #98, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

1965Busiest: 34 in 19932025
Alicen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202413#7,962
202314#7,635
202214#7,626
202118#6,409
202017#6,625
201921#5,794
201818#6,517
201724#5,336
201630#4,631
201531#4,487
201427#5,023
201332#4,420
201228#4,955
201123#5,725
201030#4,734
200923#5,889
200830#4,880
200727#5,227
200624#5,544
200533#4,191
200427#4,812
200332#4,105
200230#4,175
200129#4,205
200031#3,978
199931#3,800
199823#4,633
199733#3,445
199622#4,578
199525#4,094
199427#3,887
199334#3,285
199213#6,645
199125#4,053
199023#4,225
198927#3,667
198820#4,303
198717#4,656
198619#4,184
198514#5,075
198410#6,290
198319#3,948
198215#4,714
198116#4,531
198018#4,147
197912#5,426
197813#4,931
197713#4,941
197613#4,612
19759#5,982
19740–
197310#5,189
19728#5,957
197110#5,134
19705#7,994
19690–
19680–
19670–
19665#6,563
19657#5,288

Nicknames for Alicen

Names like Alicen

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

Other spellings of Alicen

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Alicen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alicen, updated 20 October 2026.