Felicia

Where Felicia comes from

From Middle English Felicia, from Latin Fēlīcia, from fēlīcia (literally “happy things”), the neuter plural of fēlīx, which often occurred in the phrase tempora fēlīcia (“happy times”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Felicia
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Felicia through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1986
    Peak, #89
    3,084 babies named Felicia, the most in any year.
  3. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #211.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Felicia in Wikidata.

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.