Alecia
Alecia was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,563 among girls’ names; 12,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Alecia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alecia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alecia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alecia is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, one of the modern variants of Alicia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alecia?
#5,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Alecia fell from #3,482 in 2015 to #5,563 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 13.7 per million.
362 babies in 1987, the peak
Alecia peaked in 1987, when 362 girls were given it, #555 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,563 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,985 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,999 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,717 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,720 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,858 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,182 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,739 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,055 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,930 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,482 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,424 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,123 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,516 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,839 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,203 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,485 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,894 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,905 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,705 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,683 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,497 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,327 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 157 | #1,252 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 168 | #1,186 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 182 | #1,068 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 194 | #999 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 229 | #865 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 212 | #890 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 223 | #876 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 216 | #891 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 278 | #751 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 281 | #738 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 313 | #681 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 346 | #615 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 289 | #667 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 362 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 340 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 349 | #564 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 331 | #560 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 306 | #583 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 266 | #668 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 299 | #609 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 308 | #601 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 286 | #617 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 284 | #601 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 263 | #635 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 216 | #684 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 207 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 189 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 201 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 183 | #760 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 187 | #777 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 202 | #731 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 199 | #713 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 187 | #712 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 137 | #865 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 161 | #774 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 194 | #704 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 185 | #764 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 162 | #814 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 133 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 121 | #983 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 110 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 88 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 79 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 76 | #1,210 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,480 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 55 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,451 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,025 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,252 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,738 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,806 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,106 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,684 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,975 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alecia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alecia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alecia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alecia, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 12,055 Americans ever recorded as Alecia. The median Alecia alive today is 41 years old; half are between 32 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 10,784 people named Alecia (10,774 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 55 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alecia born?
The states with the most babies named Alecia are Texas, New York and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 773 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 557 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 554 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 553 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 547 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 525 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 504 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 455 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 400 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 399 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Alecia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alecia is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1917 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alecia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 258,004 babies since 1880, Alecia is the second most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 718 babies (3.1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alecia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alecia and names like it
- Compare Alecia and AliciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAlecia peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alecia since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Alecia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Alecia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.