Felicite
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fəʎisit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Felicite is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 45th most common given name.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 2.9K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, 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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Felicite 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #407 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Felicite | 19 |
| BI Burundi | #87 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2 | Felicite | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Felicite | 9 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Felicite | 8 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #45 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Felicite | 3 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 325 | 1 in 1M | 320 | Felicite | 69 |
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; the wgnd-cd-names register; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Felicite 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 Galician, inflection of felicitar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Félicité of Coucyb. 1222FRFrench noblewoman
- Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlisb. 1746FRFrench writer (1746–1830)
- Louise-Félicité de Kéraliob. 1756FRFrench writer, editor
- Félicité Brissot de Warvilleb. 1759FRFrench translator
- Félicité de La Mennaisb. 1782FRFrench priest, philosopher and political theorist (1782–1854)
- Marie Pleyelb. 1811FRnot in their usual nameFrench pianist, composer and music educator (1811–1875)
- Laure Conanb. 1845CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1845-1924)
- Félicité Du Jeub. 1953FRFrench actress
- Princess Margaretha of Luxembourgb. 1957LUnot in their usual nameLuxembourger Royal and Liechtensteiner Princier
- Félicité Wouassib. 1961CMFrench actress
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 28 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 320 | #27,915 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #27,915 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #15 |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 2 | #18 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Felicite?
- A machine transcription gives /fəʎisit/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Felicite a male or female name?
- Felicite 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 Felicite have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Felicite in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felicite.
- How common is the name Felicite?
- In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Felicite in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Felicite compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Felicite is the 407th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Felicite?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feliciteThe 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, “Felicite” — the 407th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.