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Alicja

A Germanic name that means "noble by birth". Close to a quarter of a million Polish women carry it, and it still sits inside the top 50, so most Poles know several.

Alicja Pronunciation

Alicja is pronounced ah-LEETS-yah (/aˈlit͡sja/).

Alive in 2025
253,950
Newborns 2025
2,788
National rank
#45
Next name day
21 June
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What Alicja means

Where Alicja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Alicja reaches back to the Germanic name Adalheidis, built from adal, "noble," and heid, "kind" or "sort." The Latinized form Adelicia thinned over centuries into the shape Poland uses today. So the short meaning stays plain: noble, of noble kind, szlachetnie urodzona.

The name traveled well. French speakers wore Adelaide down to Alice, and English readers meet the Polish Alicja most often in Alicja w Krainie Czarów, the title Lewis Carroll's book was given here. At home the diminutive Ala answers for it. Variants such as Alicia and Alisiia mark the same root written by other hands.

In a Polish class register, Alicja lands early among the A names. Her imieniny falls most often on 12 June, though 16 December belongs to Saint Adelaide, the empress who died in 999 and lent this name its start. The link is old and checkable: Adalheidis, noble kind, standing behind Ala.

When Alicja celebrates name day

Alicja appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 21 June.

Next name day
21 June
Monday in 2027
Next one in 284 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Alicja

1 in 89 women in Poland is named Alicja. 253,950 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #45 among female names.

People with the name Alicja 2019 → 2025
253,950 +12,727 since 2019
2020 243,137 +1,914
2021 246,237 +3,100
2022 248,771 +2,534
2023 251,102 +2,331
2024 252,802 +1,700
2025 253,950 +1,148

Alicja's popularity over time

2,788 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #19 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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2,788 newborns with the name Alicja in 2025
national rank #19 that year

Where Alicja is most popular

Alicja is most popular in Lublin, 29% above the national average (1,770 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+21%) and Świętokrzyskie (+17%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Lubusz, 30% and 25% below average respectively.

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Alicja as a middle name

Alicja is a first name for 253,950 women in Poland and a middle name for another 86,785, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 31st, between Grażyna (95,579) and Halina (86,369).

As a first name
253,950
As a middle name
86,785
first name 75% middle name 25%
Middle-name ranking women

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