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Felicja

From Latin for "happy" or "lucky". Once nearly gone, it's climbing fast: more girls got it last year than in any year before, a real comeback that lands it just inside Poland's 500 most-given names.

Felicja Pronunciation

Felicja is pronounced fe-LEETS-yah (/fɛˈlit͡sja/).

Alive in 2025
6,003
Newborns 2025
384
National rank
#454
Also celebrates
24 January
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What Felicja means

Where Felicja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Felicja comes from Latin, from the adjective felix, which meant lucky and happy in the same breath. The Romans handed the word to people as a name for the fortunate, and its feminine form ran through Felicia into Polish as Felicja.

The short meaning stays close to the source. Szczęśliwa, a happy woman. That kind of closeness is rare, since names usually drift far from where they began.

The male variant is Felicjan. Same root, different ending, and one idea of good fortune shared between them. In a school register the name looks slightly grand now, a formal cousin of everyday choices. Felix also seeded a family of Latin words for thriving and success, and Felicja kept the plainest of them: szczęśliwa, happy and lucky.

When Felicja celebrates name day

Felicja appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 24 January.

Next name day
24 January
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 91 days
Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Felicja

1 in 3755 women in Poland is named Felicja. 6,003 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #454 among female names.

People with the name Felicja 2019 → 2025
6,003 −455 since 2019
2020 6,368 −90
2021 6,154 −214
2022 6,017 −137
2023 5,903 −114
2024 5,903 ±0
2025 6,003 +100

Felicja's popularity over time

384 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #132 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2005.

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384 newborns with the name Felicja in 2025
national rank #132 that year

Where parents choose Felicja

Felicja is most popular in Pomeranian, 41% above the national average (153 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+35%) and Masovian (+34%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Podlaskie, 49% and 46% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +41%
    1 in 963 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +35%
    1 in 1,006 babies
  • Masovian
    +34%
    1 in 1,012 babies
Chosen least
  • Holy Cross
    −49%
    1 in 2,640 babies
  • Podlaskie
    −46%
    1 in 2,530 babies
  • Łódź
    −38%
    1 in 2,185 babies

Felicja as a middle name

Felicja is a first name for 6,003 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4,742, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 148th, between Adriana (4,764) and Elwira (4,644).

As a first name
6,003
As a middle name
4,742
first name 56% middle name 44%
Middle-name ranking women

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