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Alicia is perfectly fine. It's a classic that peaked in the 80s. I would put it in a category with Stephanie and Amanda. I really dislike Alisha, Alysha and any other spelling variant you could come up with. Alisha looks very tacky to me and not classic at all. I would stick with Alicia. I prefer Alice but I would like to meet a young Alicia as well. The only problem would be that it is kind of a mom name now so it would be (I guess many people here were born in the 80s/90s) as if our moms had named us Deborah, Susan or Judy. I personally wouldn't like to have a name from my mom's generation and always seeming older than I am on paper but it's not a big problem either.

I like it, and prefer the Alicia spelling.

I like it with the Alicia spelling, and not with the Alisha prn. Alisha sounds and looks like someone just didn't care enough to spell and pronounce it correctly imo.

I had a best friend named Alicia in first grade. Pronounced a-LEE-sha. I didn't really love it then, and I still don't. If it had always been "Alice-Seeya" I might like it more, but Alicia is too familiar now for me to adjust to changing the prn. I don't like the way Alicia resembles delicious. Da-LEE-shus!

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I strongly tend to misread Alisha as a-LISH-a. I prefer Aleisha or even Alesha, over Alisha. Aleisha is pretty appealing to me. But it does not really seem like the same name as Alicia. It's like Skylar and Schuyler, Emilia and Amelia - they sound the same, but I "feel" them as different names.

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Alyssa > Aleisha > Alicia > Alisha.

This message was edited 7/27/2019, 5:26 PM

It looks nice, but the pronunciation is ugly. I'm not a native English speaker, and my instinct was to pronounce it as a-LEE-see-a, which I think is much prettier than a-LEE-sha. Nevertheless, if I had to use it, I'd go with the Alicia spelling. It might be counterintuitive to me, but Alisha looks much worse.

It has a kinda 'stuffy' quality to it, but otherwise a tolerable enough name. I much prefer the spelling of Alicia. Alisha looks cheapened to me.

I'm with you. I've never been able to decide whether or not I like it. I definitely don't love it. I prefer the Alicia spelling by far.

I always liked it, and wouldn't have minded being named it. I guess Alicia, though I did have a friend when I was little named Alisha.

I don't pronounce them the same. Alisha looks to me like it should rhyme with Letitia. But I'd expect Alicia to be Ah-lee-sha or Ah-lee-cee-ah.

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Stylewise, it's kind of like...if Amanda, Angela, Aisha, and Lucia were combined, then divided by four.

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I think Alicia is pleasant. Aly / Allie is spunky and ordinary. Alisha is vaguely off-putting.

This message was edited 7/27/2019, 11:58 AM

It’s sort of a “just there “ name. I don’t actively dislike it, but I don’t love it either.

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I prefer Alicia.

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The only other thing I have to say about it, is that it absolutely drives me batty when people pronounce it “uh-lish-uh”.

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It’s “uh-leesh-uh”!!!

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:)

This message was edited 7/27/2019, 11:29 AM