Felicita

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Felicita is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name45K records spelled Felicita13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Peru

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Felicità, Felícita, Felicitá, Felicitã

• a separate given name2.8K records spelled Felicita4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

  Also written Felícita, Felicitá, Felicità

• Russian given name159 records spelled Felicita11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Ukraine, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Фелисита, Феличита, Felisita, Felícita, Felicità

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Felicita is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Romanian, to congratulate

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, FELICITÁ, felícit, vb. I. Tranz. A adresa cuiva cuvinte de laudă pentru un succes obținut; a exprima cuiva urări de fericire cu prilejul unui eveniment important, al unei aniversări etc., a gratula. ♦ (Fam.) A se socoti mulțumit, satisfăcut, fericit (pentru rezultatul obținut, pentru atitudinea avută etc.). [Var.: (înv.) fericitá vb. I.]. ¶ FERICITÁ vb. I v. felicita.

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 116 years between 1900–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Felicita Sartorib. 1714ITItalian painter and pastellist (c. 1714–1760)
• Felicita Casellab. 1821FRFrench Italian composer
• Felicita von Vestvalib. 1831DEGerman opera singer (1831–1880)
• Felicita Pozzolib. 1838ITItalian writer and pedagogue (1838-1916)
• Felicita Ertnereb. 1891LVLatvian theatre director
• Felicita Ferrerob. 1899ITItalian anti-fascist and journalist
• Felicita Fraib. 1909CZCzech artist (1909-2010)
• Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoyb. 1940ITnot in their usual nameSavoyard Royal and historian
• Felicita Vosb. 1972NLDutch writer
• Felicita ScapiniITresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 687 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Felicita?

We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Felicita (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Felicita have the most bearers?

Felicita is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled felicita.

How common is Felicita compared with other names?

In Peru, Felicita is the 245th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

Is Felicita a male or female name?

Felicita is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Felicita mean?

Recorded meaning: variante de Félix, du latin felix, « heureuse ».