Felicita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variante de Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/feliθita/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Felicita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante de Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Felicita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #234 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Felicita | 49 |
| US United States | — | 4,773 | 1 in 70K | 4.8K | Felicita | 183 |
| VE Venezuela | #700 | 4,301 | 1 in 6.7K | 4.3K | Felicita | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | #266 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Felicita | 18 |
| NI Nicaragua | #164 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Felicita | 9 |
| SV El Salvador | #349 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Felicita | 12 |
| HN Honduras | #261 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Felicita | 8 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)
Felicita is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, to congratulate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, FELICITÁ, felícit, vb. I. Tranz. A adresa cuiva cuvinte de laudă pentru un succes obținut; a exprima cuiva urări de fericire cu prilejul unui eveniment important, al unei aniversări etc., a gratula. ♦ (Fam.) A se socoti mulțumit, satisfăcut, fericit (pentru rezultatul obținut, pentru atitudinea avută etc.). [Var.: (înv.) fericitá vb. I.]. ¶ FERICITÁ vb. I v. felicita.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Felicita Sartorib. 1714ITItalian painter and pastellist (c. 1714–1760)
- Felicita Casellab. 1821FRFrench Italian composer
- Felicita von Vestvalib. 1831DEGerman opera singer (1831–1880)
- Felicita Pozzolib. 1838ITItalian writer and pedagogue (1838-1916)
- Felicita Ertnereb. 1891LVLatvian theatre director
- Felicita Ferrerob. 1899ITItalian anti-fascist and journalist
- Felicita Fraib. 1909CZCzech artist (1909-2010)
- Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoyb. 1940ITnot in their usual nameSavoyard Royal and historian
- Felicita Vosb. 1972NLDutch writer
- Felicita ScapiniITresearcher
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 60 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,059 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4.3K | #401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #4,059 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Felicita a male or female name?
- Felicita 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.
- How do you pronounce Felicita?
- A machine transcription gives /feliθita/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Felicita mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante de Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse ».
- What are other forms of the name Felicita?
- In the etymology graph, Felicitas, Felicidad and Felicity are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Felicita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Felicita in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felicita.
- How common is the name Felicita?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,773 people named Felicita in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Felicita compared with other names?
- In Peru, Felicita is the 234th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/felicitaThe 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, “Felicita” — the 234th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.