Felix
Felix was given to 2,064 boys in 2025, #175 among boys’ names; 84,180 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 59,600 Americans named Felix and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 8 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Felix by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Felix mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Felix is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “happy, lucky” (literally).
From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).
/ˈfiːlɪks/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Felix?
#175 among boys’ names, 2025
Felix rose from #264 in 2015 to #175 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.72 to 1.2 per 1,000.
2,100 babies in 2024, the peak
Felix peaked in 2024, when 2,100 babies were given it (2,090 boys, #179 among boys’ names). The 2,074 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,064 | #175 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 2,090 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,899 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,974 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,959 | #194 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,668 | #225 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,693 | #222 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 1,657 | #228 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,513 | #246 | 0.82 |
| 2016 | 1,511 | #247 | 0.80 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,377 | #264 | 0.72 |
| 2014 | 1,379 | #267 | 0.72 |
| 2013 | 1,180 | #298 | 0.62 |
| 2012 | 1,039 | #315 | 0.55 |
| 2011 | 1,035 | #310 | 0.54 |
| 2010 | 951 | #329 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 927 | #339 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 890 | #353 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 810 | #379 | 0.39 |
| 2006 | 760 | #395 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 770 | #374 | 0.39 |
| 2004 | 691 | #392 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 691 | #376 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 661 | #394 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 684 | #380 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 696 | #377 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 664 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1998 | 637 | #388 | 0.33 |
| 1997 | 646 | #375 | 0.34 |
| 1996 | 612 | #380 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 622 | #382 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 596 | #390 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 607 | #380 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 691 | #346 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 585 | #387 | 0.29 |
| 1990 | 634 | #368 | 0.31 |
| 1989 | 611 | #366 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 570 | #359 | 0.30 |
| 1987 | 551 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 490 | #376 | 0.27 |
| 1985 | 479 | #378 | 0.26 |
| 1984 | 491 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 492 | #360 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 527 | #351 | 0.29 |
| 1981 | 555 | #334 | 0.31 |
| 1980 | 540 | #341 | 0.30 |
| 1979 | 541 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1978 | 528 | #333 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 534 | #336 | 0.32 |
| 1976 | 512 | #336 | 0.33 |
| 1975 | 538 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 537 | #327 | 0.34 |
| 1973 | 558 | #315 | 0.36 |
| 1972 | 527 | #336 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 601 | #314 | 0.34 |
| 1970 | 639 | #308 | 0.34 |
| 1969 | 571 | #325 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 568 | #319 | 0.33 |
| 1967 | 488 | #339 | 0.28 |
| 1966 | 526 | #327 | 0.29 |
| 1965 | 593 | #311 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 566 | #331 | 0.28 |
| 1963 | 614 | #319 | 0.30 |
| 1962 | 582 | #325 | 0.28 |
| 1961 | 586 | #323 | 0.28 |
| 1960 | 655 | #306 | 0.31 |
| 1959 | 631 | #308 | 0.30 |
| 1958 | 624 | #303 | 0.29 |
| 1957 | 648 | #296 | 0.30 |
| 1956 | 591 | #307 | 0.28 |
| 1955 | 557 | #308 | 0.27 |
| 1954 | 565 | #305 | 0.28 |
| 1953 | 569 | #296 | 0.29 |
| 1952 | 539 | #309 | 0.28 |
| 1951 | 537 | #298 | 0.29 |
| 1950 | 498 | #304 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 502 | #302 | 0.28 |
| 1948 | 457 | #315 | 0.26 |
| 1947 | 491 | #312 | 0.27 |
| 1946 | 448 | #308 | 0.28 |
| 1945 | 405 | #297 | 0.30 |
| 1944 | 422 | #288 | 0.31 |
| 1943 | 417 | #301 | 0.29 |
| 1942 | 401 | #306 | 0.29 |
| 1941 | 382 | #297 | 0.31 |
| 1940 | 390 | #283 | 0.34 |
| 1939 | 398 | #275 | 0.36 |
| 1938 | 393 | #279 | 0.35 |
| 1937 | 397 | #273 | 0.37 |
| 1936 | 395 | #270 | 0.38 |
| 1935 | 389 | #274 | 0.37 |
| 1934 | 387 | #274 | 0.37 |
| 1933 | 407 | #262 | 0.41 |
| 1932 | 438 | #258 | 0.42 |
| 1931 | 480 | #241 | 0.46 |
| 1930 | 515 | #243 | 0.47 |
| 1929 | 498 | #249 | 0.46 |
| 1928 | 468 | #263 | 0.42 |
| 1927 | 563 | #234 | 0.50 |
| 1926 | 559 | #236 | 0.50 |
| 1925 | 621 | #217 | 0.56 |
| 1924 | 662 | #208 | 0.58 |
| 1923 | 638 | #206 | 0.58 |
| 1922 | 656 | #202 | 0.60 |
| 1921 | 667 | #206 | 0.61 |
| 1920 | 668 | #200 | 0.63 |
| 1919 | 725 | #180 | 0.74 |
| 1918 | 746 | #178 | 0.74 |
| 1917 | 660 | #185 | 0.71 |
| 1916 | 692 | #174 | 0.78 |
| 1915 | 583 | #189 | 0.69 |
| 1914 | 526 | #172 | 0.80 |
| 1913 | 362 | #186 | 0.71 |
| 1912 | 300 | #193 | 0.70 |
| 1911 | 173 | #179 | 0.77 |
| 1910 | 161 | #176 | 0.83 |
| 1909 | 148 | #165 | 0.90 |
| 1908 | 118 | #182 | 0.76 |
| 1907 | 112 | #188 | 0.76 |
| 1906 | 112 | #168 | 0.84 |
| 1905 | 115 | #169 | 0.87 |
| 1904 | 103 | #176 | 0.80 |
| 1903 | 93 | #176 | 0.78 |
| 1902 | 114 | #154 | 0.93 |
| 1901 | 70 | #202 | 0.66 |
| 1900 | 123 | #170 | 0.82 |
| 1899 | 93 | #164 | 0.88 |
| 1898 | 103 | #162 | 0.84 |
| 1897 | 97 | #160 | 0.86 |
| 1896 | 83 | #196 | 0.69 |
| 1895 | 109 | #141 | 0.93 |
| 1894 | 78 | #190 | 0.67 |
| 1893 | 86 | #168 | 0.77 |
| 1892 | 96 | #163 | 0.79 |
| 1891 | 86 | #152 | 0.85 |
| 1890 | 72 | #187 | 0.65 |
| 1889 | 83 | #161 | 0.75 |
| 1888 | 101 | #149 | 0.84 |
| 1887 | 82 | #152 | 0.81 |
| 1886 | 92 | #153 | 0.83 |
| 1885 | 80 | #166 | 0.74 |
| 1884 | 102 | #137 | 0.89 |
| 1883 | 68 | #178 | 0.65 |
| 1882 | 91 | #152 | 0.80 |
| 1881 | 72 | #169 | 0.71 |
| 1880 | 92 | #148 | 0.83 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Felix a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Felix has been given almost only to boys: 672 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Felix: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Felix, and how old are they?
59,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 84,180 Americans ever recorded as Felix. The median Felix alive today is 23 years old; half are between 8 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 80,554 people named Felix (1,052 women and girls, 79,502 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 51,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 | 1,430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22,000 |
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 Felix born?
The states with the most babies named Felix are California, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 377 | #108 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 204 | #183 | 1.9× |
| New York | 118 | #162 | 1.6× |
| Washington | 88 | #86 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | #176 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 70 | #144 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 67 | #94 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 65 | #297 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 64 | #200 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 59 | #198 | 0.8× |
Where Felix is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Felix is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 boys’ 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 Felix 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 84,401 babies since 1880, Felix is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,074 of their 2,084 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 Felix
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 Felix and names like it
- Compare Felix and PhelixBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFelix peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Felix since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Felix: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Felix.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Felix alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.