Felice vs Felton

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Felice Felton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Felton for 100 years and Felice for 31 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.

• 1888–1960 Felton ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1961–1978 Felice ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1979–1983 Felton ahead
• 1986–1988 Felice ahead
• 1994–2022 Felton ahead, apart from 3 short spells

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Feltons alive today are over 61; half the Felices are over 58. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Felice New York (8.3×), New Jersey (2.0×), California (1.2×)
• Felton Louisiana (16.9×), Georgia (11.4×), Alabama (3.5×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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