Felisa
Felisa was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,021 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Felisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 42 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felisa mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Felisa is “a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Felicia”
Borrowed from Spanish Felisa.
/feˈlisa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,073, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
92 babies in 1970, the peak
Felisa peaked in 1970, when 92 girls were given it, #1,216 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,073 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,996 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,045 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,892 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,989 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,394 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,638 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,597 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,829 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,329 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #11,092 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,053 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,377 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,155 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,852 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,451 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,477 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,394 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,374 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,705 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,945 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,283 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,387 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,153 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,873 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,554 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,745 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,413 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,919 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,055 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,545 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,674 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,270 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,642 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,363 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,854 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,738 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,549 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,196 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,204 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,809 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,676 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,578 | 43.2 |
| 1974 | 55 | #1,669 | 37.5 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,513 | 42.5 |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,371 | 48.0 |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,295 | 51.1 |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,216 | 52.6 |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,282 | 45.6 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,214 | 49.4 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,260 | 44.2 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,296 | 41.4 |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,266 | 40.8 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,564 | 28.0 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,494 | 29.1 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,425 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,164 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,932 | 17.3 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,417 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,694 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,681 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,559 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,135 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,800 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,240 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,148 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,917 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,978 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,127 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,208 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,793 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,899 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,020 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,465 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,427 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,976 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,899 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,692 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,053 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,791 | 6.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,907 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,472 | 5.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,266 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,711 | 10.4 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,008 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,579 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,479 | 5.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,522 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,829 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Felisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Felisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felisa, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,021 Americans ever recorded as Felisa. The median Felisa alive today is 53 years old; half are between 42 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 3,315 people named Felisa (3,305 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 274 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 935 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 128 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42 |
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 Felisa born?
The states with the most babies named Felisa are California, Texas and Georgia, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 214 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 128 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 60 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 42 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Hawaii | 17 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Felisa 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 2,711 babies since 1880, Felisa is the most given (75% of them).
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 Felisa
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 Felisa and names like it
- Compare Felisa and FelissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFelisa peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felisa since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Felisa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Felisa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Felisa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with FMost given first.