Felix

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Felix boys named Felix

By the numbers

Total US births

84,180

Estimated living today

60,000

Median age today

22

Peak year

2024

Best rank

179th

Rank in 2025

175th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

672 / 83,508

How old the living Felixes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 84,180 babies given the name since 1880, about 60,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 27,000 of them are children and 7,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

From Latin Fēlīx.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Felixs

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent
• Felix Bloch (1905–1983)Swiss physicist
• Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926)Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs
• Felix IV (died 530)Pope and bishop of Rome from 526 to 530
• Felix I (300–274)Pope and bishop of Rome from 269 to 274
• Felix III (440–492)pope
• Felix Klein (1849–1925)German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program
• Felix Baumgartner (1969–2025)Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper

People named Felix with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Felix is most common

• TX12,604
• CA11,709
• NY9,736
• IL2,996
• PA2,843
• FL2,785
• NJ2,539
• MA2,023
• LA1,822
• CO1,680

Relative to how many babies each state records, Felix is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.7×), Texas (2.1×), Colorado (1.8×), Arizona (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Felix peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• James
• Henry

All the names of 2024

Felix elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Felix: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Felix is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.26% of children were given it – 96 of them.

Felix: rank by region

In 2025, Felix was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Felix was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Felix was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Felix appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (Felix, 14th), Province of East Flanders (Felix, 15th), Province of Antwerp (Felix, 20th), Province of West Flanders (Felix, 26th), Province of Luxembourg (Félix, 37th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Félix, 48th), Province of Limburg (Felix, 64th), Brussels-Capital Region (Félix, 104th), Province of Liège (Félix, 106th), Province of Liège (Felix, 147th), Brussels-Capital Region (Felix, 153rd) and Province of West Flanders (Félix, 178th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Felix by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Felix among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Felix lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 48,739 men called Felix were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Felicia
• Felipe
• Felicity
• Felecia
• Felton
• Felisha
• Felice
• Feliciano
• Felipa
• Felica
• Felisa
• Felicitas

Felix against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Felix vs Felicia
• Felix vs Felipe
• Felix vs Felicity
• Felix vs Felecia
• Felix vs Felton
• Felix vs Felisha

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