Felice

Where Felice comes from

Felice hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,263 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #958
    21 babies named Felice — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.