Girls' name · peaked in 1986

Felicia name popularity since 1925

89,400 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Felicia. Half of them were born in 1978 or earlier, so the typical Felicia is about 48 years old in 2026. Felicia peaked in 1986 as the #89 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 89,400; Named Felicia, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1986; #89 for girls that year
Typical age: About 48; Median birth year 1978
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #5,607 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.7% girls; 89,121 girls · 279 boys
Most popular in: New Mexico; 2.34× its national share

Peak year is the year Felicia made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Felicia births per year, 1925–2025

1986 was the biggest year for Felicia both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1955 and 1960, Felicia became 4× more common, from 1 in 5,750 baby girls to 1 in 1,440.
Steepest fall: Between 1993 and 1998, its share of baby girls fell by 61%, from 1 in 928 to 1 in 2,360.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Felicia's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Felicia.

Decade by decade

Babies named Felicia in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	522	0	–
1930s	870	0	#876
1940s	1,139	0	#759
1950s	3,902	0	#499
1960s	18,550	46	#164
1970s	22,330	103	#116
1980s	21,949	109	#101
1990s	15,643	21	#211
2000s	3,142	0	#990
2010s	888	0	#2,418
2020–25	186	0	#5,607

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

38.9% of babies named Felicia from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen X years (1965–1980). The full split by generation:

Where Felicia is most popular

The index compares Felicia's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Felicia.

State	Index	Babies
New Mexico	2.34×	1,122
Mississippi	2.03×	2,138
Alabama	1.86×	2,855
District of Columbia	1.77×	709
South Carolina	1.60×	1,952

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Felicia and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Felicia (this page)	89,121	1986
Felecia	10,162	1963

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Felicia's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Felicia.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Felicia (1986).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data