Felice
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Old French Felise/Felis, from Latin Felicia, feminine of Felix; first attested Felicia 1194 P (Wo)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fəˈɫis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Felice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 77K
- USUnited States1 in 90K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old FrenchFelise/Felis(measured from records)
- LatinFelicia(measured from records)
from Old French Felise/Felis, from Latin Felicia, feminine of Felix; first attested Felicia 1194 P (Wo)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Felice is read(measured from records)
Felice is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
from Old French Felise/Felis, from Latin Felicia, feminine of Felix; first attested Felicia 1194 P (Wo)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Italian: free one; also fortunate, happy
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- Italian21%
happy (contented)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dal latino felix, 'felice, fortunato'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
dal lat. felix, ‘felice, fortunato’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Spanish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Felice in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Felice 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 59 | Felice | 72 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Felice | 10 |
| US United States | — | 3,705 | 1 in 90K | 3.3K | Felice | 321 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Felice | 80 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Felice | 95 |
| SE Sweden | — | 442 | 1 in 23K | 442 | Felice | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 94 | Felice | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 98 | Felice | 21 |
| JM Jamaica | #698 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Felice | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Felice 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.
Italian form (pronounced ‘fe-lee-tchay’) or French form (pronounced ‘fe-Jeess’) of Felicia. 87 Felicia ° Latinate feminine form of Felix, of medieval origin.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Sixtus Vb. 1520ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590
- Felice Romanib. 1788ITItalian writer (1788-1865)
- Felice Beatob. 1832ITItalian-British photographer (1832–1909)
- Felice Cavallottib. 1842ITItalian politician, poet and author (1842–1898)
- Felice Bauerb. 1887DEfiancée of Franz Kafka (1887–1960)
- Felice Borelb. 1914ITItalian footballer (1914-1993)
- Felice Orlandib. 1925USAmerican stage actor
- Lina Wertmüllerb. 1928ITnot in their usual nameItalian film writer and director (1928-2021)
- Felice Gimondib. 1942ITItalian cyclist
- Félice Jankellb. 1992SESwedish actress, born 1992
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)
Attested in 72 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #4,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 746 | #4,851 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 442 | #3,024 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 168 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 59 | #248 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2023 | 6 | #1,182 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Felice mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old French Felise/Felis, from Latin Felicia, feminine of Felix; first attested Felicia 1194 P (Wo) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Felice a male or female name?
- Felice is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Felice?
- In the etymology graph, Felix, Félix and Feliks are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Felice?
- A machine transcription gives /fəˈɫis/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Felice have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Felice in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felice.
- How common is the name Felice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,705 people named Felice in 2020, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Felice compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Felice is the 698th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feliceThe 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, “Felice” — the 698th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.