Felecia
Feminine · “lucky”
Felecia belongs to a whole Roman family of luck names. Felix, Felicity, Felicitas and Felicia all come from one Latin adjective, and the adjective started somewhere unexpected: felix first meant fruitful, of soil and of livestock, and only later came to mean fortunate. Good luck and a good harvest were the same idea.
How old is the name Felecia?
Felecia first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Felecia alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 9,300 people named Felecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Felecia most popular?
Felecia peaked in 1963, reaching #470 nationally. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From felix to Felecia
The story of Felecia
Felicitas was worshipped in Rome as a goddess of good fortune and had a temple, which is unusual — most Roman abstractions did not. The name family passed into Christian use through several martyrs, including a Felicitas whose feast is still kept, and spread across every Catholic language. English took Felicia in the Middle Ages and again in the nineteenth century. The e in this spelling records the ordinary reduction of an unstressed vowel: nobody says the second syllable of this name distinctly, so an i and an e are the same sound there and only the page can tell them apart.
Meaning
lucky; fruitful
Latin felix means fertile or fruitful in its oldest attested uses — applied to land, to trees, to animals — and the sense of being fortunate grew out of that, because in an agricultural society the two were not separable. The word is related to a root about suckling and nourishing that also gives fetus and female. Felicia is the feminine of Felicius. The derivation is not disputed, and the older meaning is genuinely the more interesting one.
How the name formed
- felix
- Felicia
- Felecia
Related forms: Felicia · Felicia · Felicja · Félicie
Pronouncing Felecia
fuh-LEE-shuh
fuh-LEE-shuh, three syllables, stress in the middle, the ci said as sh. Some give it four, fuh-LEE-see-uh, which is closer to the Latin and is heard in Spanish-speaking households. The e in the second syllable is unstressed and changes nothing.
Nicknames for Felecia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1908
- Most girls named
- 1962399 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #470reached in 1963
- Change vs 2010
- 0.0%6 in 2012, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Felecia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Felicia in Italian — same name
- Felicia in Spanish — same name
- Felicja in Polish — same name
- Félicie in French — same name
Felecias among us
people named Felecia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Felecia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, cheerful, and comes with a genuinely surprising older sense.
- It sits in a large and well-documented Latin name family with several living members.
- Lisha and Feli are both usable short forms in two different traditions.
- Felicia is the standard spelling and this will be corrected toward it constantly.
- Because the difference is inaudible, defending the e is a purely visual argument.
- The syllable count varies between English and Spanish, so a bilingual child answers to two versions.
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Frequently asked
- How many Felecias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,300 people named Felecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Felecia in 2025?
- Felecia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Felecia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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