How Many People Are Named Felicity?
people named Felicity are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 18,644 people in the US has this name
Based on 18,565 babies named Felicity in Social Security records from 1935 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
938 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word felicity meaning "happiness", which ultimately derives from Latin felicitas "good luck". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans around the 17th century. It can sometimes be used as an English form of the Latin name FELICITAS. This name was revived in the late 1990s after the appearance of the television series 'Felicity'.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Felicity in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Felicity alive today is about 15 years old, and 91% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 22 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Felicity first appears in the records in 1935 and was given most often in 2017, to 938 babies. In 2025, 653 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1935 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Felicity has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #345, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #473.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #473 |
| Best rank | #345 (2017) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #460 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Felicity alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Felicity were born in California than in any other state: about 1,749 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Felicity was given 2.1 times as often in New Mexico, 2 times in Utah and 1.9 times in Idaho.
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