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Felecia

Girls' name

Variant of Felicia

Felecia has been given to 10,268 babies in the U.S. since 1908. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 422 recorded.

Babies named Felecia, 2012

1 in 610,000

Felecia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felecia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Felicia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felecia means

Felecia is a variant of Felicia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Felecia is used in English and African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fə.ˈli.ʃə/ for Felecia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Felecia → Felicia. The family’s meaning is “happy things”, recorded in English with the source elements fēlīcia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Felicia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,268 girls were recorded with the name Felecia between 1908 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 422 in 1963; its best national rank was #470 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Felecia?

Felecia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felecia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felecia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felecias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felecia was born before 1970 — so the typical Felecia is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,984
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1960s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (3,412).

Is Felecia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (422)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#470
1963

Spellings of Felecia

Felecia is not the most common spelling — Felicia is, with 69.6% against Felecia's 7.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Felecia is used

Across 1910–2025, Felecia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 17,202 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 4,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 4,545
  3. 3Georgia1 in 5,882
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 6,667
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 9,091
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 9,091
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Felecia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Felecia around the world

Where Felecia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Felecia

People whose public names include Felecia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Felecia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#470
1963
Peak year
1963
422 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
10,268
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felecia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Felecia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Felecia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TamraGenaShellieCarynDeenaKarynDeidreDanitaKimberleeRenitaDeannRenae

Sibling names for Felecia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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