Felicitas
Felicitas is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 898th, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192867 births
- Best rank
- #898in 1928
- Since 1889
- 1,990people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,990 girls have been named Felicitas in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 67 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Felicitas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 17 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 200 | |
| 1920s | 431 | |
| 1930s | 271 | |
| 1940s | 208 | |
| 1950s | 151 | |
| 1960s | 143 | |
| 1970s | 131 | |
| 1980s | 130 | |
| 1990s | 106 | |
| 2000s | 87 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 20 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Felicitas was the 898th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Felicitas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Felipapeak 1919
- Herminiapeak 1929
- Laverapeak 1925
- Enriquetapeak 1925
- Otiliapeak 1935
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Christeenpeak 1928
- Delfinapeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.