Felicitas

Where Felicitas comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Felicitas.

Felicitas through the years
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1928
    Peak, #896
    67 babies named Felicitas, the most in any year.
  3. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,970.
  4. 1960
    Felicitas Hoppe born
    German writer
  5. 1996
    Felicitas Rauch born
    German footballer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Felicitas Hoppe · German writer, born 1960
  • Felicitas Rauch · German footballer, born 1996
  • Felicitas Woll · German actress, born 1980
  • Felicitas Goodman · American linguist and anthropologist, 1914–2005
  • Felicitas Svejda · Canadian scientist, 1920–2016

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.