Feliz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: happy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Feliz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 143(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 63K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
happy
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Feliz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #12 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | — | Feliz | 87 |
| US United States | — | 5,261 | 1 in 63K | 6.3K | Feliz | 244 |
| ES Spain | #773 | 4,462 | 1 in 11K | 4.5K | Feliz | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 185K | 595 | Feliz | 76 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Feliz | 20 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 1 | Feliz | 23 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Feliz | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 259 | 1 in 13K | 259 | Feliz | 11 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Feliz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, happy, merry (trait)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Feliz. Egungo egun misterioso eta feliz . (AN, s. XVIII). ASJU 1993, 306.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Leo Harlemb. 1962ESnot in their usual nameSpanish comedian
- Jandy Felizb. 1977DODominican Republic musician
- Yomaira Sánchezb. 1984DOnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Elisa Felizb. 1988DODominican painter
- Juani Felizb. 1989DODomican actress
- Jordan Felizb. 1989USAmerican Christian musician
- Michael Felizb. 1993DODominican professional baseball player
- Lineisy Monterob. 1996DOnot in their usual nameDominican fashion model
- Andrés Felizb. 1997DODominican basketball player
- Jessica Felizactress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,452 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.5K | #1,178 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.5K | #1,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,519 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 259 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Feliz mean, and where does it come from?
- happy Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Feliz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Feliz in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled feliz.
- How common is the name Feliz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,261 people named Feliz in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Feliz compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Feliz is the 12th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/felizThe 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, “Feliz” — the 12th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.