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Alessia Alessia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LES-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Defender (Italian + Alessia Cara Canadian pop)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "defender (italian + alessia cara canadian pop)".

Alessia is one of the Italian feminine names — central to traditional Italian Catholic heritage.

Defender (Italian + Alessia Cara Canadian pop).

The name in its native script.

Alessia
Transliteration
Alessia
Pronunciation
/ əˈlɛs.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alessia stands.

Alessia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alessias before her.

Real people
Alessia Cara
Canadian-Italian pop singer + Here 2015 viral hit + Scars to Your Beautiful 2016 + Grammy Best New Artist 2018.
born 1996
In fiction
Saint Alexius / Sant'Alessio
~4th-5th c. CE Roman Christian saint + Uomo di Dio + abandoned wealth + lived as beggar at family home unrecognized + Basilica on Aventine Hill + feast July 17.
Catholic hagiography

Names connected to Alessia.

The number behind Alessia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alessia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.