girls:
1.2k births since 1954
#4539 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1954
#6561 (15th percentile)
The name Alicea is the #6,561 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,179 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,539 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 1,179 births since 1954.
Alicea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for girls in 1954). Birth data for Alicea is available in 63 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Alicea reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #842) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alicea ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alicea".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alicea", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 95 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alicia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alicia..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Alicea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.3% confident that Alicea is pronounced as uh-LIH-see-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-see-uh, at 20.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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