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Feliks

From the Latin Feliks, "lucky" and "successful". After years on the margins it's climbing fast: more boys got the name last year than ever before, though meeting one still feels like a small surprise.

Feliks Pronunciation

Feliks is pronounced FE-leeks (/ˈfɛliks/).

Related names
Félix Feliksa
Alive in 2025
9,777
Newborns 2025
466
National rank
#368
Next name day
20 November
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What Feliks means

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

Feliks comes from the Latin felix, an adjective that meant lucky, and by extension successful. Romans used it as a cognomen, a byname that marked good fortune, and that sense stayed fixed to the word. In Polish the short meaning still holds: szczęśliwy, a lucky one, a szczęściarz.

The name kept its cheerful footing. It shortens easily to Fela and turns toward the feminine as Felicja. Poland has real bearers to point to, among them the composer Feliks Nowowiejski, who set the music to the patriotic song Rota. Saint Felix helped carry the name into the church calendar, so a Feliks has a name-day to answer to.

Read a class register in a Polish school and the name still turns up. Feliks. The Latin root has not faded, and neither has the plain claim it makes, that the child called Feliks is lucky.

When Feliks celebrates name day

Feliks appears 38 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 14 January.

Next name day
20 November
Friday in 2026
Next one in 71 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

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 Feliks

1 in 2185 men in Poland is named Feliks. 9,777 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #368 among male names.

People with the name Feliks 2019 → 2025
9,777 -281 since 2019
2020 10,009 -49
2021 9,765 -244
2022 9,612 -153
2023 9,610 -2
2024 9,681 +71
2025 9,777 +96

Feliks's popularity over time

466 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #116 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.

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466 newborns with the name Feliks in 2025
national rank #116 that year

Where Feliks is most popular

Feliks is most popular in Masovian, 52% above the national average (651 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+42%) and Pomeranian (+37%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 46% and 40% below average respectively.

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Feliks as a middle name

Feliks is a first name for 9,777 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15,986, a 38/62 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 92nd, between Cezary (17,694) and Norbert (15,663).

As a first name
9,777
As a middle name
15,986
first name 38% middle name 62%
Middle-name ranking men

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