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Feliks

#6,572 in 2025Boys' name

Derived form of Felix

Feliks has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #6,572 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Feliks, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Feliks: meaning, origin, and history

Derived form of Felix

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Feliks means

Feliks is a derived form of Felix.

Origin, language, and formation

Feliks is used in Estonian, Polish and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Felix.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Feliks is pronounced /ˈfɛ.liks/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 boys were recorded with the name Feliks between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,572 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,663 in 2020 to #6,572 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,118 in 2015 to #6,572 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 Feliks?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,572
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Feliks 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feliks. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felikss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Feliks was born before 2018 — so the typical Feliks is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
58.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
110
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 58.2% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Feliks 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
+1,963
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,091
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,546
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (13)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,572
2025

Spellings of Feliks

Feliks is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 52.7% against Feliks's 0.04%.

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.

Feliks around the world

Where Feliks 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
    2009–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #602
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2013–2017
    #495
    in 2017
  • France
    1930–2024
    #6,279
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1957–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Feliks by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,091
Best rank ever
#6,572
2025
Peak year
2025
13 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Feliks

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

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Sibling names for Feliks

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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