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/).
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.
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.
Feliks's popularity over time
466 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #116 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
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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Masovian651 boys born+52%
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Greater Poland370 boys born+42%
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Pomeranian244 boys born+37%
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Lower Silesian225 boys born+18%
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Lesser Poland241 boys born−12%
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West Pomeranian85 boys born−17%
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Warmian-Masurian71 boys born−18%
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Lubusz48 boys born−20%
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Łódź120 boys born−22%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian100 boys born−25%
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Subcarpathian101 boys born−31%
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Opole36 boys born−36%
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Silesian171 boys born−38%
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Świętokrzyskie42 boys born−38%
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Podlaskie48 boys born−40%
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Lublin67 boys born−46%
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).
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90
18,530Bernard
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91
17,694Cezary
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9215,986Feliks
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93
15,663Norbert
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94
14,569Edmund
When Feliks celebrates name day
Feliks appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 14 January.