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Felecia vs Feliz

American parents have registered 10,268 Felecias since 1880, against 670 Felizes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Felecia against Feliz, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Felecia Feliz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Felecia for 86 years and Feliz for 18 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Felecia Feliz
Total US births 10,268670
Most in one year 42219
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 9,200450
Median age today 5440
Peak year 19631978
Best rank 470th girls4,931st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19081901
Girls / boys 10,268 / 0380 / 290

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Felecias alive today are over 54; half the Felizes are over 40. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Felecia and Feliz.