Entry № 434 · Spanish origin

Alicia Alicia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LEE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Noble (Alicia Keys, 15 Grammys; Alicia Vikander Oscar)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "noble (alicia keys, 15 grammys; alicia vikander oscar)".

Alicia is the Spanish form of Alice — from the Old Germanic adel (noble) + the diminutive -itia. Alicia Witt (born 1975) — Twin Peaks (1990).

Noble. Alicia Keys has won 15 Grammys including Best New Artist (2002); Alicia Vikander Best Supporting Oscar 2015.

The name in its native script.

Alicia
Transliteration
Alicia
Pronunciation
/ əˈliː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alicia stands.

Alicia 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.

Alicias before her.

Real people
Alicia Keys
American Grammy singer.
born 1981
Alicia Vikander
Swedish Oscar actress.
born 1988
Alicia Silverstone
American actress (Clueless).
born 1976
Alicia Markova
British prima ballerina assoluta.
1910 – 2004
In fiction
Alicia
Various Spanish opera.

Names connected to Alicia.

The number behind Alicia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alicia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.