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Elicia

#4,479 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alicia

Elicia has been given to 4,295 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #4,479 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Elicia, 2025

1 in 107,000

Elicia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elicia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elicia means

Elicia is a variant of Alicia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elicia → Alicia → Adelais. The family’s meaning is “noble + character”, recorded in Old French with the source elements aþalaz and haiduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,295 girls were recorded with the name Elicia between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,073 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,377 in 2020 to #4,479 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,166 in 2015 to #4,479 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 Elicia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,479
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elicia 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elicia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elicias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elicia was born before 1989 — so the typical Elicia is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,282
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (1,089).

Is Elicia 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
+1,018
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−102
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−313
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 1983 (129)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,073
1983

Spellings of Elicia

Elicia is not the most common spelling — Olivia is, with 32.3% against Elicia's 0.24%.

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 Elicia is used

Across 1910–2025, Elicia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 78,952 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Elicia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elicia around the world

Where Elicia 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1997–2025
    #4,471
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elicia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,479
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 102
Best rank ever
#1,073
1983
Peak year
1983
129 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,295
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Elicia

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

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Names with a curve like Elicia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elicia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Elicia

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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