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/).
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 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 April.
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.
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.
Where Felicja is most popular
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 Świętokrzyskie and Podlaskie, 49% and 46% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian153 girls born+41%
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Greater Poland214 girls born+35%
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Masovian350 girls born+34%
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Lubusz44 girls born+20%
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Lower Silesian123 girls born+6%
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West Pomeranian66 girls born+6%
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Opole32 girls born−6%
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Subcarpathian76 girls born−14%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian67 girls born−17%
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Warmian-Masurian43 girls born−19%
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Silesian132 girls born−21%
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Lesser Poland128 girls born−23%
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Lublin57 girls born−25%
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Łódź58 girls born−38%
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Podlaskie26 girls born−46%
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Świętokrzyskie21 girls born−49%
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).
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#146 Waleria4,801
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#147 Adriana4,764
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#148 Felicja4,742
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#149 Elwira4,644
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#150 Bernadetta4,487