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Felicity vs Feloniz

American parents have registered 18,565 Felicitys since 1880, against 8 Felonizes. Felicity is still ahead, with 653 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Felicity against Feloniz, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Felicity Feloniz

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 82 years and Feloniz for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Felicity Feloniz
Total US births 18,5658
Most in one year 9388
Babies in 2025 653under 5
Estimated living today 18,0000
Median age today 11101
Peak year 20171924
Best rank 345th girls3,665th girls
Rank in 2025 473rdunranked
First recorded 19351924
Girls / boys 18,559 / 68 / 0

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 Felonizes alive today are over 101; half the Felicitys are over 11. That is 90 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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