Feliksa
The feminine form of Feliks, from Latin for "happy" or "lucky". Only about 2,300 women in Poland carry it, so most people will never meet one, though a handful of girls still get it each year.
Feliksa Pronunciation
Feliksa is pronounced fe-LEEK-sah (/fɛˈliksa/).
What Feliksa means
Where Feliksa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Feliksa comes from the Latin felix, felicis, a word that meant happy, lucky, fortunate. Among the Romans it was a mark of favour. Generals wore it as a byname, and the dictator Sulla attached Felix to his own name after his campaigns. The word held a whole idea of good fortune, and the goddess Felicitas gave that idea a face on Roman coins.
Feliksa is the feminine form of Feliks. It reached Poland along the Christian route, behind the saints and the several popes who bore the masculine name. In Polish the meaning lands as szczęśliwy, the fortunate one.
On a school register Feliksa often sits a line or two from a Feliks, the same root split into two endings. The name promises nothing about a life. Still, it keeps its plain Latin sense wherever it goes: fortunate.
When Feliksa celebrates name day
Feliksa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 August.
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 Feliksa
1 in 9827 women in Poland is named Feliksa. 2,294 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #667 among female names.
Feliksa's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1046 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #667 name among living women, even as it slips to #1046 among newborns.
Where Feliksa is most popular
Feliksa is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+904%
Feliksa as a middle name
Feliksa is a first name for 2,294 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,892, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 173rd, between Jowita (2,993) and Bernarda (2,722).
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#171 Zenona3,020
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#172 Jowita2,993
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#173 Feliksa2,892
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#174 Bernarda2,722
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#175 Tamara2,642