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
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1986
    Peak, #89
    3,084 babies named Felicia — more than any year before or since.
  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 known Felicia turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.