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Feliciano

#4,911 in 2025Boys' name

Counterpart of Feliciana

Feliciano has been given to 2,305 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #4,911 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Feliciano, 2025

1 in 166,000

Feliciano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Feliciano: meaning, origin, and history

Counterpart of Feliciana

Spanish

What Feliciano means

Feliciano is a counterpart of Feliciana.

Origin, language, and formation

Feliciano is used in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Feliciano comes through Latin Fēlīciānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Feliciana and Felix.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Feliciano is pronounced /fe.li.siˈɐ̃.nu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,305 boys were recorded with the name Feliciano between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,306 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,748 in 2020 to #4,911 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,579 in 2015 to #4,911 in 2025.

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 Feliciano?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,911
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Feliciano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feliciano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felicianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Feliciano was born before 1978 — so the typical Feliciano is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,750
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (305).

Is Feliciano 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
+595
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−163
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+668
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1979 (40)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,306
1945

Where Feliciano is used

Across 1910–2025, Feliciano was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 35,414 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Feliciano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Feliciano around the world

Where Feliciano 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.

  • France
    1925–1975
    #2,307
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Feliciano

People whose public names include Feliciano, 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.

Feliciano in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Feliciano. Linked forms have their own page here.

FelicioFeliciàFelicijan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Feliciano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 163
Best rank ever
#1,306
1945
Peak year
1979
40 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,305
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Feliciano

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

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Names with a curve like Feliciano

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

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Sibling names for Feliciano

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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