Felicien
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: ANE, 2025
Felicien is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Rwanda it is the 49th most common given name.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 4.8Kfew records
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 6.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Madagascar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Felicien 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #577 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 3 | Felicien | 11 |
| MG Madagascar | #477 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Felicien | 10 |
| RW Rwanda | #49 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Felicien | 11 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 2 | — | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 6.8K | Felicien | 193 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 3 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 23 | 1 in 751K | 23 | — | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Félicien-César Davidb. 1810FRFrench composer (1810–1876)
- Félicien Ropsb. 1833BEBelgian artist (1833-1898)
- Félicien Champsaurb. 1858FRFrench writer (1858–1934)
- Félicien Menu de Ménilb. 1860FRFrench composer and Esperanto enthusiast (1860–1930)
- Francis de Miomandreb. 1880FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer
- Félicien Tramelb. 1880FRFrench film actor (1880-1948)
- Félicien Courbetb. 1888BEBelgian water polo player (1888–1967)
- Claude Royb. 1915FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet, essayist and journalist (1915-1997)
- Félicien Juttnerb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Marc Guillaumeb. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench official
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)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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2011 | 6.8K | #1,875 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 12 | #15,999 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 3 | #17 |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #15 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Felicien a male or female name?
- Felicien is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2011).
- In which country does Felicien have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Felicien in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felicien.
- How common is the name Felicien?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23 people named Felicien, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
- How common is Felicien compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Felicien is the 577th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Felicien?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/felicienThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Felicien” — the 577th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.