Given name & surname
Alic
“helper and defender of mankind”
Alic is a variant of Alec. In Greek use, Alec carries the interpretation “helper and defender of mankind.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alic is a variant of Alec. In Greek use, Alec carries the interpretation “helper and defender of mankind.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alic through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 231
- 231 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 465 as a first name in 2020; 772 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alic’s family of names
Alic has a related form in Alec. In English usage, Alic as a surname was borrowed from the Serbo-Croatian form Alić.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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