Entry № 669 · Latin origin

Anicia Anicia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NEE-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Byzantine princess and art patron"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "byzantine princess and art patron".

Anicia is the Latin feminine of the noble Anician family name. Anicia Juliana (462-527) was the Byzantine princess and one of the wealthiest women of the 5th-6th c.

Granddaughter of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III.

The Byzantine princess who commissioned the Vienna Dioscurides.

The name in its native script.

Anicia
Transliteration
Anicia
Pronunciation
/ əˈniː.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anicia stands.

Anicia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anicias before her.

Real people
Anicia Juliana
Byzantine princess, art patron.
462 – 527
In fiction
Anicia
Common in Byzantine historical fiction.

Names connected to Anicia.

The number behind Anicia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anicia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.