Fun Facts About the Name Analicia
- More than 2 thousand babies named Analicia: U.S. records list 2,107 babies given the name Analicia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Analicia Mean?
Analicia is a compounded feminine name built from two familiar names rather than one ancient root. The most natural reading joins Ana (the Spanish and Italian form of Anna) with Alicia, so the name carries the meanings of both parts at once.
Ana and Anna come from the Hebrew name Ḥannāh, associated with the sense "favor" or "grace." It passed through Greek and Latin as Anna and entered Spanish and Italian as Ana. Alicia descends from the Germanic name Adalheidis, formed from the elements adal ("noble") and heit ("kind, sort, type"); it became Aalis and Aliz in French, then Alice and Alicia in English. Read literally, the blend yields "grace" plus "noble kind."
A second possible derivation treats Analicia as a respelling of Annalisa, an Italian and Spanish compound of Anna and Lisa. Lisa is a short form of Elizabeth, from the Hebrew Elisheva, usually explained as "my God is an oath" or "God is abundance." On that reading the second half would not mean "noble" at all.
Because the written -licia matches Alicia while -lisa matches Lisa, the Alicia explanation is the more natural one, but the name is uncommon enough that no single derivation is settled. The customary gloss is therefore a blend meaning along the lines of "grace and nobility," understood as an inheritance from the parent names rather than a translation of an original word.
Analicia Name History & Origins
Analicia does not descend from one ancient name. It belongs to the large group of double feminine names that combine two established names, a pattern common in Spanish-, Italian-, and Portuguese-speaking countries, where two given names may be used together or written as a single form. Compounds such as Ana Lucía and Annalisa belong to the same habit.
Both building blocks are old. Anna is one of the longest continuously used names in Europe, appearing in the Greek New Testament and in the Greek and Latin traditions of the Christian church, and it spread through medieval and early modern Europe as Ana, Anne, and Anna. Alicia arrived by a different road: from Germanic Adalheidis, which produced French Aliz and Aalis and English Alice, and later the Latinized or Hispanicized Alicia. Anyone joining these elements was working with names already familiar on their own.
The ending -icia reflects Spanish and Italian spelling habits, where -cia is common in names such as Alicia and Patricia. Spellings like Analisa and Annalisa circulate alongside it. The similarity to Anastasia, a Greek name from anastasis ("resurrection"), does not indicate a shared origin; the resemblance is in sound and spelling only.
The history of Analicia is thus the history of its parts plus the modern practice of blending them, rather than a chain of medieval records for the name itself. It remains a relatively uncommon given name, used chiefly in English- and Spanish-speaking settings.
How Popular is the Name Analicia?
Analicia has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2007. Its best rank was #2,018 in 2007.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,421 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2024 | #4,884 | 27 | 0.0017% |
| 2023 | #5,765 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2022 | #4,588 | 30 | 0.0018% |
| 2021 | #5,972 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #3,923 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2019 | #4,079 | 35 | 0.0021% |
| 2018 | #3,007 | 54 | 0.0032% |
| 2017 | #3,148 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 2016 | #3,383 | 47 | 0.0027% |
| 2015 | #3,350 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2014 | #3,116 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2013 | #3,468 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2012 | #3,318 | 49 | 0.0028% |
| 2011 | #2,536 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 2010 | #3,048 | 55 | 0.0031% |
| 2009 | #2,676 | 68 | 0.0037% |
| 2008 | #2,486 | 76 | 0.0040% |
| 2007 | #2,018 | 101 | 0.0053% |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 | 0.0051% |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 | 0.0041% |
| 2004 | #2,229 | 79 | 0.0043% |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | 0.0038% |
| 2002 | #2,710 | 56 | 0.0031% |
| 2001 | #2,602 | 58 | 0.0032% |
| 2000 | #2,482 | 61 | 0.0034% |
| 1999 | #2,613 | 54 | 0.0030% |
| 1998 | #2,695 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 | 0.0035% |
| 1996 | #2,716 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 1995 | #3,028 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1994 | #2,754 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 1993 | #2,993 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 1992 | #2,614 | 47 | 0.0025% |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 1990 | #2,645 | 44 | 0.0023% |
| 1989 | #2,412 | 48 | 0.0026% |
| 1988 | #3,043 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 1987 | #3,258 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 1986 | #2,567 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 1984 | #3,148 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 1983 | #3,957 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1982 | #9,279 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1981 | #8,169 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1966 | #6,583 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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