Entry № 3285 · Latin origin

Felicia Felicia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fee-LEE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Happy (Felicia Day, geek-culture pioneer)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "happy (felicia day, geek-culture pioneer)".

Felicia is from the Latin felix (happy, fortunate) — the feminine of Felix and the older Latin form of Felicity. Felicia Pearson — The Wire (2004-2008). Felicia Sanders — American jazz singer.

Subject of countless internet-TV studies.

Happy (Felicia Day, geek-culture pioneer) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Felicia
Transliteration
Felicia
Pronunciation
/ fəˈliː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Felicia stands.

Felicia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Felicias before her.

Real people
Felicia Day
American actress and producer.
born 1979
Felicia Sanders
American jazz singer.
1922 – 1975
In fiction
Felicia
Friday.
1995

Names connected to Felicia.

The number behind Felicia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Felicia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.