Felix

40,449 people in the United States were counted with the surname Felix in the 2020 census, making it the 837th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,390.

By the numbers

People: 40,449
Rank: 837th
How common: 1 in 7,390
Per 100,000: 13.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Felix described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 65.1%
White, not Hispanic 16.6%
Black, not Hispanic 12.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Felix

João Félix (born 1999)Portuguese footballer
Allyson Felix (born 1985)American track and field athlete
Charles Felix of Savoy (1765–1831)aristocrat and king of Sardinia
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born 1946)Mexican drug lord
Felix (born 2000)South Korean-Australian rapper and singer
Rachel Félix (1821–1858)French actress
Kelvin Felix (1933–2024)Dominican Catholic cardinal
Felipe Félix (born 1985)Brazilian association football player

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

Surnames like Felix

Also a first name

Felix has been given to 84,180 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.