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Felicitas

Girls' name

Fruitfulness, fertility, through Fēlīcitās

Felicitas has been given to 1,990 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1928, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Felicitas, 2024

1 in 478,000

Felicitas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felicitas: meaning, origin, and history

Fruitfulness, fertility, through Fēlīcitās

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felicitas means

Felicitas belongs to the name family reached through Felicitas → Fēlīcitās. Its meaning is “fruitfulness, fertility”.

Origin, language, and formation

Felicitas is used in German and Latin.

Felicitas comes through Latin Fēlīcitās.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fēlīcitās.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Felicitas is pronounced [feːˈliː.kɪ.taːs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,990 girls were recorded with the name Felicitas between 1889 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1928; its best national rank was #898 in 1928.

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 Felicitas?

Felicitas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felicitas 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felicitas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felicitass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felicitas was born before 1940 — so the typical Felicitas is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
809
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1920s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (431).

Is Felicitas 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 1928 (67)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
1928

Spellings of Felicitas

Felicitas is not the most common spelling — Felicia is, with 80.2% against Felicitas's 1.8%.

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 Felicitas is used

Across 1910–2025, Felicitas was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 27,138 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —

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. Felicitas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Felicitas around the world

Where Felicitas 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1916–1916
    #762
    in 1916
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #644
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Felicitas 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
#898
1928
Peak year
1928
67 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,990
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felicitas

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

FelisitasFelicianaFelicitaFelicityFelisaFelicaFelipaFelishiaFelishaFelinaFelicidadFelixFeliceFeleciaFelitaFelissaFeleshiaFelisiaFelichaFeliciteFelicieFelecityFeleshaFelicia

Sibling names for Felicitas

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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