Felicita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Felicita

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,884 babies named Felicita between 1885 and 2021, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Felicita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Felicita performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 290 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Felicita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 391 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Felicita in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Felicita in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,884 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.