Felice

Where Felice comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Felice.

  • Vowel-ended
Felice through the years
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,263 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #958
    21 babies named Felice, its best rank.
  3. 1914
    Felice Borel born
    Italian footballer
  4. 1942
    Felice Gimondi born
    Italian cyclist
  5. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #8,812.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Felice Gimondi · Italian cyclist, 1942–2019
  • Felice Borel · Italian footballer, 1914–1993
  • Felice Beato · Italian-British photographer, 1832–1909
  • Felice Romani · Italian writer, 1788–1865

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.