Given name · also Late Latin
Delicia
“one who gives pleasure”
Delicia is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “one who gives pleasure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who gives pleasure.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
Delicia is a feminine form of Delicius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Delicia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,559
- 0 boys · 2,559 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 101 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,635 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −79%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,635 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 101 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,325 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Delicia’s family of names
Delicia is a feminine form of Delicius. Delicia has a related form in Delisa. Delicia has a related form in Delisha.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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