Felica vs Felicity
American parents have registered 18,565 Felicitys since 1880, against 2,087 Felicas. Felicity is still ahead, with 653 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Felica Felicity
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 83 years in which either name was published, Felicity for 54 years and Felica for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
Side by side
| Felica | Felicity | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,087 | 18,565 |
| Most in one year | 96 | 938 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 653 |
| Estimated living today | 2,000 | 18,000 |
| Median age today | 48 | 11 |
| Peak year | 1975 | 2017 |
| Best rank | 1,202nd girls | 345th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 473rd |
| First recorded | 1953 | 1935 |
| Girls / boys | 2,087 / 0 | 18,559 / 6 |
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 Felicas alive today are over 48; half the Felicitys are over 11. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Felica Mississippi (7.5×), Georgia (4.3×), Alabama (3.7×)
- Felicity Utah (2.9×), Idaho (2.1×), Arizona (2.0×)
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: Felica and Felicity.