Felix
The 2025 national count puts Felix at #175, right at the top of its own curve. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 83,508 American bearers across the record.
What Felix carries
Felix · Latin
“happy, 163”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Felix’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Felix, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Felix since 1880
Felix peaked in 2024 at #179; #175 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Felix is most common
Felix is most common in Vermont: 0.58% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.51%) and Wyoming (0.46%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Felix
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Elian
#147 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Silas
#71 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
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About Felix
How common is Felix today?
The 2025 national count puts Felix at #175, right at the top of its own curve. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Felix?
The gloss on record reads “happy, 163”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Felix?
Nearest by the published recipe: Elian, Luka and Lucia. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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