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Felicity
Say it: feh-LIS-ih-tee
Meaning
Latin felicitas, 'good fortune, happiness'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used as a Christian name from late antiquity and as an English virtue name from the 17th century.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 15,168 babies given this name since 1935
- At its height in 2017, about 1 in 1,800 girls
- 796 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Early ChristianLatinEnglishFrenchSpanishItalianGermanAmerican
The family of the name
Other spellings: Felicitas
| French | Félicité |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Felicidad |
| Italian | Felicita |
| Portuguese | Felicidade |
| German | Felizitas |
| Polish | Felicyta |
Famous bearers
- Felicity, slave and martyr at Carthage in 203 with Perpetua
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.