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Felise

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Felise has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1966, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Felise, 1980

1 in 689,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felise: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felise means

Felise is a given name.

The naming story behind Felise

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Felise in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 163.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Fr. Lat. happy”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Felise, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 girls were recorded with the name Felise between 1954 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1966; its best national rank was #5,002 in 1966.

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.

How common is Felise?

Felise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felise 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 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felise was born before 1967 — so the typical Felise is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Felise 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 1966 (8)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,002
1966

Spellings of Felise

Felise is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 55.3% against Felise's <0.01%.

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.

Felise around the world

Where Felise 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
    1902–2014
    #7,077
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1990–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Felise 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
#5,002
1966
Peak year
1966
8 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felise

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

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Sibling names for Felise

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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