Felicity
Felicity was the 473rd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 653 babies. Its best year was 2017, when it ranked 345th with 938 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 113 places. More babies were named Felicity in the 2010s than in any other decade.
Meaning happiness, good fortune · Latin, English
Say it fih-LIS-ih-tee /fəˈlɪsəti/
- Rank in 2025
- #473 girls, down 89 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 653girls
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 2017938 babies
- Total since 1880
- 18,565babies recorded
What does the name Felicity mean?
Felicity is the English word for happiness, used as a name, and also the English form of Latin Felicitas, "good fortune, happiness". DMNES records Felicitas in 12th-century France and as Felicita in Italy in the 1520s. Saint Felicity, martyred with Saint Perpetua in 203, is the best-known bearer. Wiktionary records both sources.
fēlīcitās (Latin, “happiness, good fortune”)
How sure is this? Well established.
Related names: Felicitas, Felicia, Felicidad.
See also: Latin names, names that mean joy.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Felicity', Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (ed. S. L. Uckelman), Edition 2023 no. 1, s.v. 'Felicitas', DMNES, Durham University
- Dictionary.com Unabridged (based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary), with Collins English Dictionary, s.v. 'felicity', Dictionary.com / Random House / HarperCollins
- CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict), Carnegie Mellon University
Nicknames for Felicity
The usual nicknames for Felicity are Fliss and Flick.
| Nickname | Kind | Rank 2025 | Girls, 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fliss | Traditional | — | — |
| Flick | Traditional | — | — |
Nicknames reviewed by our editors; counts are girls given the nickname as their legal first name. Nobody records how many Felicitys go by each one.
Felicity popularity since 1880
A few boys are given the name too: 6 since 2004.
| Year | Rank (girls) | Babies (girls) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #473 | 653 |
| 2020 | #384 | 809 |
| 2010 | #764 | 358 |
| 2000 | #447 | 634 |
| 1990 | #2,056 | 65 |
| 1980 | #2,226 | 45 |
| 1970 | #2,535 | 29 |
| 1960 | #3,411 | 14 |
| 1950 | #3,771 | 9 |
| 1940 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — |
| 1910 | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — |
How popular is Felicity, counting every spelling?
Felicity has no other common spelling that sounds the same. Counting every name's spellings together, it ranks #486 for girls in 2025, against #473 on the official list, because Jazlyn/Jazlynn/Jazzlyn and Arlette/Arlet/Arlett and Camryn/Kamryn/Kamrynn move ahead once their spellings are combined.
How many kids will share the name Felicity?
653 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Felicity (0.18 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Felicity born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 13 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Felicity.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Felicity?
About 18,300 people born in the US named Felicity are alive today, with a median age of 12; half are between 7 and 23. That makes Felicity a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Felicity by state
How common Felicity was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Idaho (4.0×), Kansas (2.7×), Wisconsin (2.4×), Oregon (2.2×), Nebraska (2.1×). It is least common, relative to the national rate, in Nevada, New Hampshire, California.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Felicity: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Felicity, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Felicity · Sibling names for Felicity
Questions about the name Felicity
What does Felicity mean?
Felicity means “happiness, good fortune” (Latin, English origin). Certainty: well established.
How popular is the name Felicity?
Felicity was the 473rd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 653 babies. Its best year was 2017, when it ranked 345th with 938 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 113 places. More babies were named Felicity in the 2010s than in any other decade.
Is Felicity a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Felicity in the US.
Where is Felicity most popular?
In 2021–2025, Felicity was most common in Idaho (1.67 per 1,000 girls), followed by Alaska and Delaware.