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Popularity of the baby name Alicia


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Baby born during Hurricane Andrew, named Andrew

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Most of the hurricane-inspired baby names I know of (e.g. Alicia, Gloria, Hazel) were given to girls. So I had to end the series with a boy. :)

Hurricane Andrew hit Florida on August 24, 1992. It ended up demolishing Homestead Air Force Base.

Luckily, Kevin Hicks — who had been stationed at Homestead — was off the base by that point. Kevin, his pregnant wife Heidi, and their daughter Emily had driven 5 hours north to Leesburg to avoid the storm.

But on the day the hurricane hit Homestead, Heidi went into labor (4 days early). She gave birth to a baby boy at Leesburg Regional Medical Center that night.

The baby was named Jacob Andrew.

Source: Bond, Bill. “Hurricane Shoots Down Visiting Air Force Family.” Orlando Sentinel 27 Aug. 1992: 1.

Image: Adapted from Hurricane Elena by NASA (public domain)

Baby born during Hurricane Elena, named Elena

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On August 30, 1985, while Hurricane Elena was threatening the Mississippi coast, Cheryl Brimage of Biloxi, Mississippi, gave birth to a baby girl at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

The baby, born four days late, was named Elena. “The baby waited on the hurricane, so I just had to name her Elena,” Cheryl noted.

(The mother of baby Alicia, born 12 days late and named after Hurricane Alicia, used similar reasoning.)

Source: “Mom names baby for Elena.” Gainesville Sun 31 Aug. 1985: 2A.

Image: Adapted from Hurricane Elena by NASA (public domain)

Baby born during Hurricane Alicia, named Alicia

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On the night of August 17, 1983, a baby girl was born — 12 days overdue — to Rachelle and Kenneth Sanders of Galveston, Texas.

Mrs. Sanders said the couple had already picked out a name for their infant if she were a girl. “But then I thought, ‘Why would she wait until there was a hurricane?’ I didn’t think I would go into labor then, and the nurses suggested naming her after the hurricane.'”

Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston just a few hours after baby Alicia was born.

Source: “Baby Alicia get to Galveston first.” News Journal [Wilmington, DE] 19 Aug. 1983: 5.

Image: Adapted from Hurricane Elena by NASA (public domain)