Felicity
Felicity was given to 653 girls in 2025, #473 among girls’ names; 18,565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,300 Americans named Felicity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felicity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felicity mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Felicity is “a female given name from English.”
From the noun felicity, and also the English form of Latin Felicitas, a name borne by early martyrs.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felicity?
#473 among girls’ names, 2025
Felicity fell from #360 in 2015 to #473 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.51 to 0.41 per 1,000.
938 babies in 2017, the peak
Felicity peaked in 2017, when 938 girls were given it, #345 among girls’ names. The 653 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 653 | #473 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 631 | #485 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 681 | #455 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 696 | #454 | 0.42 |
| 2021 | 709 | #439 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 809 | #384 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 873 | #361 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 896 | #355 | 0.53 |
| 2017 | 938 | #345 | 0.54 |
| 2016 | 922 | #356 | 0.52 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 911 | #360 | 0.51 |
| 2014 | 626 | #499 | 0.35 |
| 2013 | 500 | #576 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 437 | #651 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 427 | #664 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 358 | #764 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 360 | #786 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 433 | #697 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 412 | #710 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 468 | #621 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 404 | #686 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 379 | #707 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 430 | #624 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 499 | #549 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 549 | #503 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 634 | #447 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 717 | #390 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 260 | #818 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 147 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,357 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,511 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,508 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,662 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,051 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,104 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,276 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,449 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,321 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,084 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,226 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,530 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,451 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,787 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,228 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,143 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,000 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,499 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,535 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,300 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,284 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,810 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,485 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felicity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felicity has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Felicity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felicity, and how old are they?
18,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,565 Americans ever recorded as Felicity. The median Felicity alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 13,421 people named Felicity (13,403 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 134 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 477 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,790 |
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 Felicity born?
The states with the most babies named Felicity are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 51 | #619 | 0.9× |
| California | 35 | #844 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #366 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 28 | #620 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #387 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 27 | #419 | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #216 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 25 | #423 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 25 | #282 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 24 | #338 | 1.0× |
Where Felicity is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felicity is most over-represented in Utah: since 1935 it was given 1.4 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 Felicity 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, Felicity is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 653 of their 653 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Felicity
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 Felicity and names like it
- Compare Felicity and FelicitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFelicity peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felicity since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Felicity: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Felicity.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Felicity alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.