Félix
The accented, French and Spanish spelling of Polish Feliks, from the Latin for "happy, lucky". Fewer than 70 men in Poland carry this version, so most people here will never meet one.
Félix Pronunciation
What Félix means
Where Félix comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Félix comes from the Latin felix, which first meant fruitful and later fortunate. Romans used the word as a byword for luck. The dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla added Felix to his own name after his victories. From there it entered the calendar of saints, and dozens of early bishops and popes carried it, which is why the name has so many feast days.
In French and Spanish the name became Félix, worn by painters and writers. The short meaning stayed close to the root: happy, lucky.
Polish took the Latin almost untouched as Feliks, and gave it a feminine partner, Feliksa. A boy signing a school register as Feliks holds the same word a Roman soldier once wore for luck. Feliksa holds it too.
The name still means what it meant. Lucky.
How many people are named Félix
1 in 318600 men in Poland is named Félix. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4431 among male names.
Félix's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Félix as a middle name
Félix is a first name for 67 men in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1624th, between Ezechiel (27) and Hartmut (27).
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#1622 Eliot27
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#1623 Ezechiel27
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#1624 Félix27
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#1625 Hartmut27
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#1626 Heinc27