girls:
17.3k births since 1935
#1136 (80th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2004
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
17.3k births since 1935
#1965 (75th percentile)
The name Felicity is the #1,965 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,271 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 74.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,136 (80.1% percentile) for all time with 17,265 births since 1935. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2004.
Felicity first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Felicity is available in 80 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023 (80 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Felicity has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Felicity reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 66.2% percentile (ranked #321) with 496 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 496 births per million (ranked 66.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Felicity ranks #411 for girls (56.7% percentile) with 386 births per million, which is 77.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Felicity reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Felicity".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Felicity. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Felicity is pronounced as fuh-LIH-sih-tee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fih-LIH-suh-tee, at 19.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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