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Felisa

About 2,021 American babies have been named Felisa since 1914, most of them around 1970. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,800 Felisas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Felisa

By the numbers

Total US births
2,021
Estimated living today
1,800
Median age today
52
Peak year
1970
Best rank
1,212th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1914

How old the living Felisas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,021 babies given the name since 1914, about 1,800 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Felisas

People named Felisa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Felisa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Felisa is most concentrated in Alabama (3.7×), Georgia (3.5×), California (3.5×), Texas (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1970

The most popular girls’ names the year Felisa peaked:

All the names of 1970

Felisa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Felisa 75 1,085th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Felisa among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Felisa 8

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Felisa lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 20,590 women called Felisa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Soria Felisa 138 3.112 65
Cáceres Felisa 602 3.072 78
Palencia Felisa 238 2.979 73
Ávila Felisa 227 2.839 77
Burgos Felisa 457 2.522 89
Zamora Felisa 206 2.465 86

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Felisa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.