Felicytas
Only about thirty Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. A Latin name meaning "happiness, good luck", still heard mostly in its short form Fela.
Felicytas Pronunciation
Felicytas is pronounced fe-lee-TSIH-tahs (/fɛliˈt͡sɨtas/).
What Felicytas means
Where Felicytas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Felicytas comes from Latin. Its root is felicitas, the word for happiness and good luck, and it sits beside felix, the Latin adjective for fortunate. The Romans honored a goddess Felicitas and minted her on coins as a public wish for good fortune.
The name reached Poland through the Church. Saint Felicitas of Rome was an early Christian martyr, and her feast fixed the name in the calendar. A Felicytas on an imieniny list carries an old Roman word for luck.
Everyday speech wears the name down to Fela. That form is short. Fela turns up in Polish records where the full Felicytas would feel formal, and it holds the same root sense of good fortune.
How many people are named Felicytas
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Felicytas. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7469 among female names.
Felicytas as a middle name
Felicytas is a first name for 30 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2154th, between Eylül (12) and Florentine (12).
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#2152 Eugenie12
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#2153 Eylül12
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#2154 Felicytas12
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#2155 Florentine12
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#2156 Gillian12