Felicia
From the Latin for "happy, lucky", and used only for girls. Barely 140 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays with you, though a small run of newborns has kept it going through the last decade.
Felicia Pronunciation
Felicia is pronounced fe-LEE-chah (/fɛˈlit͡ɕa/).
What Felicia means
Where Felicia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Felicia grows from a single Latin word: felix, meaning happy or lucky. Romans gave felix to people they counted as blessed by fortune. The general Sulla took it as a title, calling himself Felix after his victories. The name turns that adjective into a woman described, plainly, as fortunate.
In Polish the meaning lands as szczęśliwa. The Latin adjective reached wider than people; Romans called fertile, fruit-bearing trees felix as well. The word carried its luck openly, with no legend bolted on afterward to explain it. Felix meant fortunate in Rome, and the sense passed straight into the name.
Read a class register in a Polish school and Felicia sits among names with heavier stories. Hers is direct. The Latin felix meant lucky then, and szczęśliwa means the same now.
How many people are named Felicia
1 in 165763 women in Poland is named Felicia. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2829 among female names.
Felicia's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1238 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where Felicia is most popular
Felicia is most popular in Podlaskie, 995% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+307%).
Felicia as a middle name
Felicia is a first name for 136 women in Poland and a middle name for another 68, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 813th, between Bernadyna (68) and Gaia (68).
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#811 Yasmin69
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#812 Bernadyna68
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#813 Felicia68
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#814 Gaia68
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#815 Giulia68