Felicity

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Felicity is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: happy, prosperous; from Latin felicitas.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 3.6K◐
  • ATAustria1 in 5.7K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 5.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
307 ●

117K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Felicitas in DE Germany, PH Philippines, ES Spain and 6 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

happy, prosperous; from Latin felicitas.

Sources 1

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Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Felicity is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia#49732,43527K rec.—80Felicity192
GB United Kingdom#89415,67312K rec.—7Felicity160
US United States—13,40343K rec.1 in 25K13KFelicity307
DE Germany#91912,2669.9K rec.—13Felicitas154
PH Philippines—8,73510K rec.—listedFelicitas36
ZA South Africa#6525,8125.9K rec.——Felicity65
ES Spain—3,285△415 rec.1 in 15K3.6KFelicitas29
AT Austria#5902,896296 rec.—755Felicitas60
CA Canada—2,5331.1K rec.—12Felicity93
NG Nigeria—1,4962.1K rec.——Felicity40
PE Peru—1,036544 rec.——Felicitas17
NZ New Zealand#375854625 rec.—12Felicity77

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Languages●

  • English76K81%
  • Swahili2.5K3%
  • Spanish2.2K2%
  • German1.6K2%
  • Portuguese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English75,67481%
Swahili2,5203%
Spanish2,2012%
German1,5702%
Portuguese1,2221%

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◐

Felicity is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5.6K records spelled Felicity27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan

    Also written Felicitas, Felícitas, Félicity, Felicítas, Félicitas

  • a separate given name716 records spelled Felicity2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, South Africa

    Also written Félicity

  • Spanish given name209 records spelled Felicity28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Venezuela, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Felicita, Felicità, Felícita, Felicitá, Félicita

  • Russian given name165 records spelled Felicity4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Фелисити

  • Bulgarian given name93 records spelled Felicity9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Bulgaria, South Africa

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Felisiti, Фелисити

42 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●

Felicity is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Prosperity; fortunate; rich.

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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●

02505007501K19401960198020002020938 · 2017

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Felicity in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1935–2025
Yearrecords
19356
19367
19445
19466
19479
19485
19499
19509
195110
19526
195313
195413
195510
19567
19579
19586
19596
196014
19628
196315
196416
196525
196615
196718
196811
196918
197029
197130
197240
197337
197436
197552
197633
197742
197834
197945
198045
198149
198249
198341
198447
198540
198645
198752
198851
198952
199065
199168
199291
1993104
1994103
1995121
1996123
1997147
1998260
1999717
2000634
2001549
2002499
2003430
2004379
2005404
2006468
2007412
2008433
2009360
2010358
2011427
2012437
2013500
2014626
2015911
2016922
2017938
2018896
2019873
2020809
2021709
2022696
2023681
2024631
2025653

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 82 years between 1935–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Felicity Palmer, b. 1944Felicity Kendal, b. 1946Felicity Lott, b. 1947Felicity Dean, b. 1959Felicity Montagu, b. 1960Felicity Huffman, b. 1962Felicity Mason, b. 1976Felicity Jones, b. 1983Felicity Galvez, b. 1985Felicity Feline, b. 1992

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●

Attested in 58 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Felicity
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,031
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025653—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—547#1,894
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—292#4,392
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—117#7,657
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)198480#96
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202273—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—69#51,391
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202067—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—66#10,106
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)200752—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—50#8,693

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 538 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Felicity?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Felicity (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Felicity have the most bearers?
Felicity is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled felicity.
How common is Felicity compared with other names?
In Australia, Felicity is the 497th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
Is Felicity a male or female name?
Felicity 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 Felicity mean?
Recorded meaning: happy, prosperous; from Latin felicitas.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Felicity” — the 497th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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