Meaning not yet researched.
Felicity: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 653 in 2025. Its best rank was #345 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #345 in 2017; #473 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Felicity in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#473 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #345.
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Felicity: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 653 girls in 2025. Peak: #345 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 938 (2017).
In 2025, 653 US girls were named Felicity, making it the 473rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 12 places from #485 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 631 girls named Felicity in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #345, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 938. For comparison, it was #360 in 2015 and #3,771 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Felicity in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 6 babies. In all, 18,565 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,888 babies named Felicity.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,808 US girls were named Felicity; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 938. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,461 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Felicity ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #191 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Felicia (91,371 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Felicitas, Felicidad and Felecity are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Flick and Tick.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Felicitas (1,990), Felicidad (131), Felecity (84), Feliciti (58), Felisity (23), Phelicity (10), Filicity (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 12 | #191 | #286 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #216 | #200 |
| Iowa | 15 | #235 | #375 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #247 | — |
| Idaho | 9 | #259 | #225 |
| Kansas | 12 | #266 | #261 |
| Missouri | 22 | #279 | #318 |
| Indiana | 25 | #282 | #258 |
| Colorado | 20 | #307 | #328 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #328 | #554 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #330 | #319 |
| Virginia | 24 | #338 | #222 |
| Utah | 13 | #344 | #176 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #362 | #330 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #366 | #364 |
| Maryland | 14 | #386 | #818 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #387 | #485 |
| Alabama | 12 | #400 | #459 |
| Ohio | 27 | #419 | #317 |
| Illinois | 25 | #423 | #331 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #424 | #280 |
| Michigan | 20 | #429 | #306 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #462 | #471 |
| Arizona | 12 | #554 | #372 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #564 | #219 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #596 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #599 | #402 |
| Texas | 51 | #619 | #414 |
| Florida | 28 | #620 | #390 |
| Washington | 10 | #638 | #224 |
| Georgia | 16 | #656 | #432 |
| Oregon | 5 | #664 | #266 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #682 | #632 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #706 | #331 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #749 | #289 |
| New York | 21 | #769 | #580 |
| California | 35 | #844 | #469 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 653 | #473 | — | — |
| 2024 | 631 | #485 | — | — |
| 2023 | 681 | #455 | — | — |
| 2022 | 696 | #454 | — | — |
| 2021 | 709 | #439 | — | — |
| 2020 | 809 | #384 | — | — |
| 2019 | 873 | #361 | — | — |
| 2018 | 896 | #355 | — | — |
| 2017 | 938 | #345 | — | — |
| 2016 | 922 | #356 | — | — |
| 2015 | 911 | #360 | — | — |
| 2014 | 626 | #499 | — | — |
| 2013 | 500 | #576 | — | — |
| 2012 | 437 | #651 | — | — |
| 2011 | 427 | #664 | — | — |
| 2010 | 358 | #764 | — | — |
| 2009 | 360 | #786 | — | — |
| 2008 | 433 | #697 | — | — |
| 2007 | 412 | #710 | — | — |
| 2006 | 468 | #621 | — | — |
| 2005 | 404 | #686 | — | — |
| 2004 | 379 | #707 | 6 | #10,392 |
| 2003 | 430 | #624 | — | — |
| 2002 | 499 | #549 | — | — |
| 2001 | 549 | #503 | — | — |
| 2000 | 634 | #447 | — | — |
| 1999 | 717 | #390 | — | — |
| 1998 | 260 | #818 | — | — |
| 1997 | 147 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,285 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,999 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,773 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,628 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,812 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,918 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).