Felicitas
One of the rarest names on the register: only 22 women in Poland carry it, and none have been born this century. A Latin name meaning "good luck" or "good fortune".
Felicitas Pronunciation
Felicitas is pronounced fe-lee-CHEE-tahs (/fɛliˈt͡ɕitas/).
What Felicitas means
Where Felicitas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name comes from the Latin felicitas, a word for good luck and fortune. Its root is felix, meaning lucky or fruitful, the same root the Romans gave to fertile fields and a good harvest. The name held two ideas at once: fortune for a person, and abundance from the soil.
Saint Felicitas of Rome carried it into the Christian calendar. She was a martyr. Remembered in Rome since the early centuries, she fixed the name in church use across Europe. German-speaking lands took to it, and from there it traveled east.
In Poland the name softened into forms a child could wear. Felicja and felicyta are the fuller variants. Fela is the everyday diminutive, the name a teacher reads from the class register. The Polish sense, szczęście and urodzaj, holds both halves of the Latin: fortune for the person, yield from the field.
Underneath every one of them sits felicitas, good luck.
How many people are named Felicitas
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Felicitas. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9299 among female names.
Felicitas as a middle name
Felicitas is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1828th, between Febronia (16) and Fiorella (16).
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#1826 Ezgi̇16
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#1827 Febronia16
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#1828 Felicitas16
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#1829 Fiorella16
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#1830 Heliodora16