Félicia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: forme féminine liée à Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse »

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/feʎisja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Félicia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 39th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 435(measured from records)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 685
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈310,000 people, est.

Sources
520 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 435 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Felicia in US United States, NG Nigeria, SE Sweden and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

forme féminine liée à Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse ».

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Félicia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Félicia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#111≈310,000 est.≈1 in 685—Felicia95
US United States#46378,1011 in 4.3K78KFelicia520
GH Ghana#39≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Felicia72
SE Sweden#11723,4481 in 43523KFelicia113
RO Romania#287≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Felicia82
DO Dominican Republic#40≈9,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Felicia35
MD Moldova#3463,1761 in 1.1K3.2KFelicia27

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Félicia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Felícia, Felicià, Felicia

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Felicia

  • Swahili given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, South Africa, Ghana

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Felicia, Fèlicia

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Félicia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Féminin de Félix, du latin felix « heureux, chanceux ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Félicia Mallet, b. 1860Félicia Francisci, b. 1972Félicia Atkinson, b. 1981Clara Aranda, b. 1988Félicia Menara, b. 1991Félicia Roy, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Félicia,Hi Félicia, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Félicia?
A machine transcription gives /feʎisja/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Félicia mean?
Recorded meaning: forme féminine liée à Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse ».
Is Félicia a male or female name?
Félicia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Félicia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 312 thousand people named Félicia in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felicia.
Where is Félicia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Félicia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 435 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Félicia?
In the United States, the national register counted 78,101 people named Félicia in 2020, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
How common is Félicia compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Félicia is the 111th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Félicia” — the 111th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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