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Alicia vs Alinna

American parents have registered 231,497 Alicias since 1880, against 660 Alinnas. Alicia is still ahead, with 672 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alicia against Alinna, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alicia Alinna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alicia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Alicia had 753 and Alinna had 47.

Side by side

  Alicia Alinna
Total US births 231,497660
Most in one year 7,85347
Babies in 2025 67229
Estimated living today 214,000660
Median age today 408
Peak year 19842020
Best rank 40th girls3,281st girls
Rank in 2025 460th4,661st
First recorded 18811984
Girls / boys 230,790 / 707660 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alicias alive today are over 40; half the Alinnas are over 8. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alicia Alinna
England and Wales 13,4343

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alicia and Alinna.