Felicita
Feminine · “happiness”
In Italian this is an ordinary noun and one mark separates it from the name. Felicità, with an accent on the final syllable, means happiness and is a word people use in sentences; take the accent off and the stress moves back, the word stops being a word, and what is left is a name.
How old is the name Felicita?
Felicita first appears in US birth records in 1885 — 140 years ago. The typical Felicita alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 1,300 people named Felicita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Felicita most popular?
Felicita peaked in 1885, reaching #1047 nationally. See the whole 1885 chart.
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Where it comes from
From felicitas to Felicita
The story of Felicita
Italian marks a stressed final syllable with an accent and the mark is doing grammatical work rather than decorating. Words ending that way are a distinct class — città, università, libertà, verità — almost all of them abstract nouns descended from Latin endings that lost their last syllable, and the accent is what tells a reader the word belongs to it. Removing it does not simply change the spelling; it moves the stress and reclassifies the word. That is a considerable amount of information carried by one small stroke.
Meaning
happiness
The Italian abstract noun descended from the Latin. Its sense is not in dispute and it remains in everyday use, which makes this one of the few names whose meaning a native speaker could not possibly miss.
How the name formed
- felicitas
- felicità
- Felicita
Related forms: Felicita · Felicitas
Pronouncing Felicita
feh-lee-CHEE-tah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Italian says the c before an i as a ch, which English speakers regularly get wrong in both directions.
Nicknames for Felicita
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
- 1885
- Most girls named
- 197536 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1047reached in 1885
- Change vs 2007
- −25.0%6 in 2021, from 8
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.
Felicita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Felicita in Italian — same name
- Felicitas in Spanish — same name
Felicitas among us
people named Felicita 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
Felicita 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 entirely positive and unmistakable to any Italian speaker.
- It has established short forms across two languages.
- The rhythm is long and even and rather graceful.
- The c in the middle is said as a ch, which English speakers do not expect.
- Four syllables is long and most people will shorten it immediately.
- Felicitas and Felicia are both commoner in America and get substituted.
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Frequently asked
- How many Felicitas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Felicita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Felicita in 2025?
- Felicita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Felicita with classmates?
- Felicita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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