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Alicja

#10,966 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Alice

Alicja has been given to 399 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #10,966 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Alicja, 2025

1 in 414,000

Alicja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alicja: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Alice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alicja means

Alicja is a form of Alice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Alicja is a form of Alice. Alice has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Alicja is used in Polish.

Alicja comes through Old High German Adalheidis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Alicja is pronounced /aˈli.t͡sja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 399 girls were recorded with the name Alicja between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,944 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,295 in 2020 to #10,966 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,970 in 2015 to #10,966 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alicja?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,966
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alicja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alicja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alicjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alicja was born before 2010 — so the typical Alicja is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
399
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Alicja rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,978
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−671
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,996
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.4%
Peak was 2010 (22)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,944
2011

Spellings of Alicja

Alicja is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 52.0% against Alicja's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alicja is used

Across 1910–2025, Alicja was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 232,459 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alicja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alicja around the world

Where Alicja ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2020
    #281
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,015
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1958–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alicja by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,966
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 671
Best rank ever
#5,944
2011
Peak year
2010
22 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
399
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Alicja

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alicja

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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