Felicyta
Straight from Latin: the word felicitas, meaning happiness and good luck. Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it today, so most people here have never met one.
Felicyta Pronunciation
Felicyta is pronounced fe-lee-TSIH-tah (/fɛliˈt͡sɨta/).
What Felicyta means
Where Felicyta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Felicyta comes straight from Latin. Behind it sits felicitas, the Roman word for happiness and good fortune, along with its close relative felix, meaning happy or fruitful. Rome went so far as to worship Felicitas as a goddess and stamp her on its coins, a public wish for good luck.
The name settled early in Poland. It shows up in Polish records as far back as the twelfth century, carried in by the calendar of saints. Saint Felicyta, a martyr of the early Church, became the patron of pregnant women and unborn children, which connected a name about happiness to new life.
Her feast set the name into the calendar. A girl named Felicyta can mark her imieniny on the seventh of March, the fourth of September, or the twenty-third of November, whichever her family keeps. The Latin root holds through all of it: happiness, good luck.
When Felicyta celebrates name day
Felicyta appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 7 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Felicyta
1 in 116205 women in Poland is named Felicyta. 194 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2272 among female names.
Felicyta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Felicyta is most popular
Felicyta is most popular in Silesian, 612% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+52%).
Felicyta as a middle name
Felicyta is a first name for 194 women in Poland and a middle name for another 118, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 604th, between Atena (118) and Gabrielle (118).
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#602 Olena119
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#603 Atena118
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#604 Felicyta118
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#605 Gabrielle118
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#606 Petra118