Felicity
Barely a footnote in Poland: just 32 women carry it, and most Poles will never meet one. A Latin name at root, from felicitas, "happiness".
Felicity Pronunciation
Felicity is pronounced fe-lee-CHEE-tih (/fɛliˈt͡ɕitɨ/).
What Felicity means
Where Felicity comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Felicity begins with the Latin felicitas, meaning good fortune, and behind it stands felix, happy and lucky. The Romans honoured a goddess called Felicitas, minted on their coins as a promise of good times. The name arrived already meaning happiness, szczęście, before anyone bore it.
Then came the martyr. Felicity of Carthage died in the arena around 203, remembered beside Perpetua, and her feast fixed the name in Christian calendars. English speakers took it up much later. The Puritans favoured virtue names, and Felicity sat among Grace and Prudence as a word a person could carry.
It stays rare. On a Polish class register the name stands out at once. The English form keeps its plain sense intact: happiness, and nothing more complicated than that.
How many people are named Felicity
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Felicity. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7130 among female names.
Felicity's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Felicity as a middle name
Felicity is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1570th, between Fay (21) and Florentina (21).
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#1568 Else21
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#1569 Fay21
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#1570 Felicity21
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#1571 Florentina21
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#1572 Ivana21