Alicia
Meaning and origin
Latinate variant of Alice.
Source: Wiktionary, Swedish entry for Alicia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Alicia has been falling over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2017. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
Show the figures
| Year | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 235 |
| 1999 | 180 |
| 2000 | 189 |
| 2001 | 211 |
| 2002 | 258 |
| 2003 | 320 |
| 2004 | 339 |
| 2005 | 360 |
| 2006 | 367 |
| 2007 | 358 |
| 2008 | 433 |
| 2009 | 437 |
| 2010 | 435 |
| 2011 | 404 |
| 2012 | 512 |
| 2013 | 602 |
| 2014 | 518 |
| 2015 | 466 |
| 2016 | 608 |
| 2017 | 647 |
| 2018 | 513 |
| 2019 | 467 |
| 2020 | 493 |
| 2021 | 379 |
| 2022 | 374 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
Show the figures
| Year | Women and girls |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,415 |
| 2000 | 1,615 |
| 2001 | 1,830 |
| 2002 | 2,088 |
| 2003 | 2,412 |
| 2004 | 2,747 |
| 2005 | 3,095 |
| 2006 | 3,455 |
| 2007 | 3,814 |
| 2008 | 4,291 |
| 2009 | 4,748 |
| 2010 | 5,181 |
| 2011 | 5,600 |
| 2012 | 6,124 |
| 2013 | 6,713 |
| 2014 | 7,248 |
| 2015 | 7,715 |
| 2016 | 8,339 |
| 2017 | 9,000 |
| 2018 | 9,530 |
| 2019 | 10,015 |
| 2020 | 10,508 |
Alicia in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Alicia.Hi! My name is Alicia.
- Har du träffat Alicia? Hon började jobba här i måndags.Have you met Alicia? She started working here on Monday.
- Alicia har bott i Uppsala i tre år.Alicia has lived in Uppsala for three years.
- Alicias mamma är lärare.Alicia's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Alicias mamma is Alicia's mum.
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Questions about Alicia
How do you pronounce Alicia in Swedish?
Press Listen at the top of the page to hear Alicia from a native speaker's recording.
What does the name Alicia mean?
Latinate variant of Alice.
How popular is Alicia in Sweden?
374 babies were named Alicia in 2022. In 2020, 10,508 people in Sweden had Alicia as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been falling lately and peaked in 2017 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.