Felicia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fəliʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Felicia 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 520 (measured from records)
- 1 in 435 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Felicia is read(measured from records)
Felicia is one spelling over 2 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.
- English69%
A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latin, 'happy; lucky'
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- Spanish13%
Forma femenina de Félix.
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Felicia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #111 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 685 | — | Felicia | 95 |
| US United States | #463 | 78,101 | 1 in 4.3K | 78K | Felicia | 520 |
| GH Ghana | #39 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Felicia | 72 |
| SE Sweden | #117 | 23,448 | 1 in 435 | 23K | Felicia | 113 |
| RO Romania | #287 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Felicia | 82 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #40 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Felicia | 35 |
| MD Moldova | #346 | 3,176 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.2K | Felicia | 27 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Felicia 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.
Dichosa y afortunada
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Latinate feminine form of FELIX , of medieval origin. Derivatives: German: Felicie. Hungarian: Felicia, Lícia .
as a word
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)
- Felicia Hemansb. 1793GBEnglish poet (1793-1835)
- Felicia Montealegreb. 1922CRChilean Costa Rica-born American stage and television actress (1922-1978)
- Felicia Sandersb. 1922USAmerican singer (1922–1975)
- Felicia Farrb. 1932USactress
- Felicia D. Hendersonb. 1961USTelevision writer
- Katrina McClainb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1965)
- Irina Björklundb. 1973FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Felicia Foxb. 1974USAmerican pornographic actress
- Felicia Dayb. 1979USAmerican actress
- Felicia Erikssonb. 2001SESwedish singer (born 2001)
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 96 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 78K | #677 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23K | #181 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 3.2K | #210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 95 | #677 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Felicia mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Felicia?
- In the etymology graph, Felisa, Felecia and Felisha are forms of the same name in other languages; Lecia is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Felicia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 312 thousand people named Felicia in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felicia.
- Where is Felicia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Felicia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 435 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- Is Felicia a male or female name?
- Felicia 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 Felicia?
- A machine transcription gives /fəliʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Felicia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 78,101 people named Felicia in 2020, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Felicia compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Felicia is the 111th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feliciaThe 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, “Felicia” — the 111th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.