Felicita
Felicita was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 1,884 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Felicita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 41 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felicita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felicita mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Felicita is “a female given name, equivalent to English Felicity”
Borrowed from Latin Fēlīcitātem.
/feliˈθita/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felicita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,053, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1964, the peak
Felicita peaked in 1964, when 36 girls were given it, #1,985 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #14,053 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,068 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,069 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,757 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,463 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,971 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,680 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,042 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,362 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,155 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 | #7,373 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,235 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,982 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,850 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,283 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,799 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,868 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,686 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,744 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,228 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,918 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,359 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,888 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,235 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,547 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,797 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,599 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,225 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,370 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,889 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,815 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,644 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,626 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,315 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,286 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,139 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,419 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,616 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,556 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,534 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,221 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,654 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,806 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,471 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,264 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,985 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,500 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,325 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,085 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,991 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,067 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,406 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,433 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,016 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,127 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,137 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,190 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,433 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,143 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,926 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,706 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,525 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,014 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,779 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,645 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,128 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,596 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,704 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,213 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,226 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,642 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,146 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,014 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,309 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,029 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,791 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,446 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,067 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,045 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,583 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,969 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,800 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,049 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,741 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,059 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,577 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,513 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,846 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,422 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,771 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,105 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,345 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,463 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,060 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,077 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,052 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,811 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,031 | 16.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,238 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,840 | 20.2 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,550 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,809 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,585 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,733 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,247 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,668 | 22.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,473 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,578 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,665 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,563 | 22.4 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,392 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,398 | 26.3 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,096 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felicita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felicita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Felicita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felicita, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 1,884 Americans ever recorded as Felicita. The median Felicita alive today is 54 years old; half are between 41 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 4,773 people named Felicita (4,760 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 73 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 356 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 407 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 121 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Felicita born?
The states with the most babies named Felicita are Texas, New York and New Mexico, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 391 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| New York | 359 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New Mexico | 26 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Felicita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felicita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Felicita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 20,697 babies since 1880, Felicita is the second most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 653 babies recorded by SSA was a Felicita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Felicita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Felicita and names like it
- Compare Felicita and FelicityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sFelicita peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felicita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Felicita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Felicita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Felicita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.