Felicitas
Felicitas was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,990 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felicitas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felicitas mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Felicitas is “a female given name”
Learned borrowing from Latin Fēlīcitās.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felicitas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,597, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1928, the peak
Felicitas peaked in 1928, when 67 girls were given it, #898 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,597 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,547 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,044 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,362 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,471 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,938 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,116 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,578 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,450 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,595 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #15,888 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,415 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,070 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,848 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,187 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,972 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,661 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,495 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,951 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,285 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,768 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,236 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,983 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,601 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,766 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,146 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,210 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,845 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,097 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,474 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,366 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,404 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,264 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,304 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,146 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,435 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,738 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,446 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,393 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,422 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,697 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,126 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,296 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,720 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,658 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,297 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,706 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,948 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,629 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,844 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,519 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,898 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,122 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,613 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,293 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,174 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,106 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,862 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,565 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,258 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,405 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,139 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,369 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,570 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,754 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,092 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,727 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,349 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,161 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,703 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,853 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,907 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,676 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,338 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,950 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,984 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,916 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,928 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,710 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,652 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,334 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,821 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,027 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,212 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,391 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,273 | 30.6 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,990 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,167 | 35.6 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,167 | 35.7 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,259 | 32.0 |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,067 | 42.1 |
| 1928 | 67 | #898 | 58.1 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,178 | 36.1 |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,103 | 39.6 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,235 | 32.9 |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,131 | 38.4 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,273 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,480 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,228 | 32.4 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,481 | 25.0 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,494 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,774 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,734 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,418 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,456 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,564 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,486 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,228 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,487 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,286 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,330 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,551 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,471 | 27.1 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,300 | 32.7 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,497 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,546 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,804 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,474 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,579 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,666 | 21.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,349 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felicitas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felicitas has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Felicitas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felicitas, and how old are they?
An estimated 923 Americans named Felicitas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 35 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 5,660 people named Felicitas (5,640 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.4 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.
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 Felicitas born?
The states with the most babies named Felicitas are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% 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 | 886 | not ranked | 7.2× |
| California | 240 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Mexico | 11 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Felicitas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felicitas is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 7.2 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 Felicitas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Felicitas
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 Felicitas and names like it
- Compare Felicitas and LavenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFelicitas peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felicitas since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Felicitas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Felicitas.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Felicitas alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.