Fewer than five US girls were named Felisa in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,214, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 92, in 1970. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,919 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Felisa in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,021 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 602 babies named Felisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30 US girls were named Felisa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Felicia (91,371 babies since 1880) and Felisha (5,903 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Felissa and Feliza are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.