girl's name

Alecia

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 12,726

Northern Ireland

#499

2009 births

Alecia is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 1987, when 362 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 150,716 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1917.

Alecia over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,196
'10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Alecia by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 6
1920s 39
1930s 57
1940s 177
1950s 609
1960s 1,589
1970s 2,218
1980s 3,196
1990s 2,299
2000s 1,252
2010s 487
2020s (to 2025) 126

How popular is Alecia?

In 2025, Alecia was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Alecia is used

Northern Ireland #499 3 in 2009
Scotland #986 3 in 2012
Canada #2,784 7 in 2014
France as Alécia #4,991 5 in 2023
United States #5,678 22 in 2025
England & Wales #7,054 3 in 2022

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Alecia is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Alécia Alécia is a rare spelling of Alecia, written with an acute accent and recorded about 30 times, mostly in France. 30

Names that peaked alongside Alecia

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Alecia also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Alecia over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Alecia

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Alecia — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Alecia

How popular is the name Alecia?

In 2025, Alecia was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Alecia a girl's or a boy's name?

Alecia is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Alecia most popular?

Alecia peaked in 1987, when 362 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Alecia a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Alecia currently ranks #5,678 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.