# Felicia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/felicia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “happy things”, “happy times” |
| Pronunciation | /fəˈliʃə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | Flick |
| Variant spellings | Felisha |
| US babies named this | 91,371 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 279 / 91,092 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 528, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Felicia, from Latin Fēlīcia, from fēlīcia (literally “happy things”), the neuter plural of fēlīx, which often occurred in the phrase tempora fēlīcia (“happy times”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 157 | 1,442 |
| 2012 | 151 | 1,494 |
| 2013 | 116 | 1,767 |
| 2014 | 87 | 2,183 |
| 2015 | 76 | 2,418 |
| 2016 | 49 | 3,297 |
| 2017 | 45 | 3,451 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,876 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,815 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,067 |
| 2021 | 30 | 4,543 |
| 2022 | 40 | 3,785 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,934 |
| 2024 | 31 | 4,505 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,607 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | 4,695 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,555 |
| 1980 | 6 | 5,758 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,595 |
| 1982 | 6 | 5,883 |
| 1983 | 10 | 3,956 |
| 1984 | 12 | 3,534 |
| 1985 | 13 | 3,473 |
| 1986 | 11 | 3,962 |
| 1987 | 17 | 2,989 |
| 1988 | 11 | 4,260 |
| 1989 | 18 | 3,248 |
| 1990 | 11 | 4,785 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,626 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,191 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,360 |
| 2014 | 29 | 1,177 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,549 |
| 2016 | 29 | 1,172 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,512 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,397 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,575 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

## In other languages

- French: Félicie
- German: Felizia
- Italian: Felicia
- Polish: Felicja
- Romanian: Felicia
- Spanish: Felisa
- Swedish: Felicia
- Ukrainian: Фелікса

## People named Felicia

- Felicia Day, American actress
- Felicia Hemans, English poet (1793-1835)
- Félicia Ballanger, French cyclist
- Felicia Montealegre, Chilean Costa Rica-born American stage and television actress (1922-1978)
- Felicia Farr, actress
- Felicia Fox, American pornographic actress
- Felicia Pearson, American actress
- Felicia Tang, American actress and model (1977-2009)
- Felícia Leirner, Brazilian sculptor (1904-1996)
- Felicia Spencer, Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Felicia Stancil, American bicycle racer
- Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer-songwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.