Alacia — girls' name
474 babies named Alacia in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Alacia was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Alacia in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alacia
The Social Security Administration has registered 474 babies named Alacia between 1956 and 2014, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alacia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alacia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Alacia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alacia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alacia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 474 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Alacia at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Alacia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1956
- Peak year (1997)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 59 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
474 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 26 births in a single year.
Alacia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 168 births that decade — 35% of Alacia's all-time total
Alacia decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 131 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Alacia's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Alacia by state
Where Alacia concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 23 | 4.9% |
23 of 474 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 4.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 4.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1956–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.