Alicia
Meaning of Alicia
Alicia drifts from the lips like a Sevillian guitar chord at dusk—born of the Old German Adelheid, she carries the quiet promise of “noble kind,” yet in Spanish plazas and English storybooks alike her syllables dance with equal grace: ah-LEE-thya beneath Iberian sun, uh-LEE-shuh amid lilting anglophone chatter. She is the sister of Alice, forever sipping curiosity from Lewis Carroll’s teacup, and the modern muse of pianist Alicia de Larrocha and soul-soaring Alicia Keys, whose melodies keep her shining on radio waves and nursery walls. In every era the name has waltzed up and down popularity charts—peaking in the neon ’80s, settling today into a gentle, enduring glow—much like a timeless flamenco skirt that never quite leaves the floor. Call her, and one summons citrus blossoms, polished crowns, and a wink of adventurous mischief; Alicia is both queenly and barefoot, a name that invites a child to stride into life with a noble heart and a song forever humming at her heels.
Pronunciation
Spanish
- Pronunced as ah-LEE-thyah (/aˈleθja/)
English
- Pronunced as uh-LEE-shuh (/əˈliʃə/)
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Notable People Named Alicia
| Alicia Keys is an American singer songwriter and classically trained pianist whose early albums Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys brought major global success and multiple Grammy awards. |
| Alicia Silverstone is an American actress who broke out with The Crush, became a teen idol through Aerosmith videos, headlined Clueless, and later played Batgirl in Batman and Robin. |
| Swedish actress Alicia Amanda Vikander is an Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award winner with three BAFTA and two Golden Globe nominations. |
| Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist, writer, and speaker who co founded Black Lives Matter and advocates for racial and social justice for marginalized communities including Black women, LGBTQ people, and immigrants. |
| Alicia Witt is an American actress and musician who rose to fame as a child in David Lynch projects including Dune and Twin Peaks, later known for Cybill, films like Urban Legend and Vanilla Sky, and TV roles on The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights, Justified, and Law and Order Criminal Intent. |
| Alicia Markova was a pioneering British ballerina, famed for the Ballets Russes, the first British principal dancer and one of only two English dancers recognized as a prima ballerina assoluta, and a founding figure at Rambert, the Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and English National Ballet. |
| Alicia Oshlack is an Australian bioinformatician renowned for developing methods to analyze gene expression data, advancing our understanding of human evolution and improving disease diagnosis through clinical sequencing. |
| Maria Alicia Austria-Martinez is a Filipino jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2002 to 2009, appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. |
| Alicia Aberley is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability who won multiple medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics and is a multiple world record holder. |
| Alicia Amherst - Alicia Margaret Tyssen Amherst, later Baroness Rockley, was an English horticulturist and botanist who wrote the first scholarly history of English gardening. |
| Alicia Luna is a Spanish screenwriter, director, and professor who won the Goya for Best Original Screenplay for Te doy mis ojos and leads the Lydia Cacho Foundation aiding people threatened by human rights abuses. |
| Alicia Villarreal - Alicia María Villarreal Mesa is a Chilean visual artist, professor, and curator whose avant-garde conceptual practice explores memory, language, and artistic production, shaped by studies in Chile and Brussels. |
| Alicia Maree Malone is an Australian American author and television host for Turner Classic Movies. |
| Countess Alicia von Rittberg is a German actress known for a brief role in Fury, a Bambi Award-winning lead in Charite, and portraying Elizabeth Tudor in Becoming Elizabeth. |
| Alicia Dujovne Ortiz is an Argentine journalist and author. |
