Alcina
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Meaning
the name of a sorceress in Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso, possibly taken from the myth name Alcinoe or from Greek alke, "strength, prowess"
How popular is Alcina around the world?
In the United States, 7 babies were named Alcina between 2020 and 2025. In Spain, 21 residents are named Alcina, ranked 29,719th among women, with a mean age of 57.4 years.
Alcina is on the official records of the United States and Spain.
United States
1 in 3.1M
In the United States, 7 babies were named Alcina between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Alcina has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 2.1M
In Spain, 21 residents are named Alcina, ranked 29,719th among women, with a mean age of 57.4 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Not on 15 other recordsWhy
- Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
- Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.
- Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
- Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.
- Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
- Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only).
- Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Alcina deep dive
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