Felina

#13,761 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Felinus

Felina has been given to 388 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #13,761 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Felina, 2025

1 in 553,000

Felina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Felinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felina means

Felina is a feminine form of Felinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Felina is used in Ancient Roman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Felinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 388 girls were recorded with the name Felina between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,555 in 1971.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,462 in 2015 to #13,761 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Felina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 553,000; 6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 268,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #13,761; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Felina 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 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felina was born before 1985 — so the typical Felina is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 19.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 388; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Felina 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: +265; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −299; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.86×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 33.3%; Peak was 1971 (18)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,555; 1971

Spellings of Felina

Felina is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 13.1% against Felina's 0.03%.

Regina13.1%184,272
Melinda9.6%135,822
Elena7.7%108,013
Felicia6.5%91,092
Eliana5.4%76,104
Belinda5.2%72,960
Eliza5.0%70,569
Selena4.2%59,887

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 Felina is used

Across 1910–2025, Felina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Felina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Felina around the world

Where Felina 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
1998–2021
#6,654
in 2021

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

Felina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #13,761
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,555; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 18 that year
First recorded: 1959
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 388
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Felina

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

Safina Galina Velina Felix Matina Aamina Zelina Armina Surina Eleina Dalina Sheina Araina Allina Helina Ellina Cerina Momina Lumina Almina Jelina Levina Rubina Kelina

Sibling names for Felina

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

For a sister

Tressa Michell Sharla Kerrie Kesha Karie Nichelle Janel

For a brother

Shon Scot Edwardo Tracey Stacey Berry Kelley Tod

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