Felix
Top 1000
About Felix
Felix is one of those ancient but nontraditional names for boys that have come into favor over the past few decades, a favorite of parents who want a masculine name with history and heft that breaks ranks with the standard Franks and Freds. Felix is also an international darling, ranking in the Top 100 in several European and English-speaking countries.
Felix was originally a Roman surname but was adopted as a nickname by the ancient Roman Sulla, who believed that he was especially blessed with luck by the gods. It is the name of four popes and sixty-seven saints; in the Bible, Felix is a Roman procurator of Judea.
Felix, energetic and upbeat with a felicitous meaning, has finally transcended its negative associations to Felix The Cat and the persnickety Felix Unger.
The name appears in literature as the central character in George Eliot's novel Felix Holt, the protagonist of Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Henry James's The Europeans, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and as a member of the Volturi Guard in the Twilight series. In movies Felix has popped up in everything from several James Bond films to Spy Kids and The Hangover.
Gillian Anderson and Elizabeth Banks are two modern celebrities who chose Felix for their baby boys. A notable namesake is Felix Frankfurter, a long-term Supreme Court Justice.
Popular in the Hispanic community, Felix is also celebrating a surge abroad. Felix has been on the U.S. popularity list for as long as records have been kept and is rapidly becoming a Nameberry fave.
Pronounced as FEE-liks in English, it is said as FEH-liks in German, Swedish and Dutch, and as FEH-leeks in Latin.
Pronounced FEE-liks.
As of October 2026, Felix ranked #175 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #137 in 1884, Nameberry popularity #2.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #266 | 1,379 | 717.9 |
| 2015 | #263 | 1,377 | 718.4 |
| 2016 | #247 | 1,511 | 796.2 |
| 2017 | #246 | 1,513 | 817.4 |
| 2018 | #228 | 1,654 | 910.7 |
| 2019 | #222 | 1,692 | 943 |
| 2020 | #225 | 1,668 | 966.4 |
| 2021 | #194 | 1,958 | 1,119.2 |
| 2022 | #193 | 1,974 | 1,130.6 |
| 2023 | #192 | 1,897 | 1,109 |
| 2024 | #177 | 2,081 | 1,207.9 |
| 2025 | #175 | 2,064 | 1,208.4 |
World rankings
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Felix on lists
Famous Felixs
- Felix Mendelssohn
German composer
- Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie
Swedish Youtuber
- Felix Baumgartner
Austrian skydiver
- Felix Jones
American football player
- Felix Lope de Vega
Spanish playwright and poet
- Felix Nadar
pioneering French photographer
- Felix Pipes
Austrian tennis player
- Felix Solis
American actor
- Felix Sandman
Swedish pop,singer
- Felix Vallotton
Swiss painter and printmaker
- Felix Felixovich Yusupov
assassin of Rasputin
- Felix Dzerzhinsky
notorious Soviet statesman
- Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist and Nobel prize winner
- Felix Leopold Marie Guillaume (b. 1984)
Prince of Luxembourg, son of Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa
- Felix Radford (b. 1991)
son of director Michael Radford
- Felix Lee (b. 2000)
Korean,Australian rapper and member of South Korean boy band Stray Kids
- Felix Henrik Valdemar Christian (b. 2002)
Prince of Denmark, son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- Felix Delaney (b. 2007)
son of actors Fiona O'Carroll and Martin Delaney
- Felix Watson (b. 2007)
son of actor Barry Watson
- Felix Griffiths (b. 2008)
son of actress Gillian Anderson
- Felix Handelman (b. 2011)
son of actress Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman
- Felix Chang Grant (b. 2013)
son of English actor Hugh Grant
- Felix Rye Ladwig (b. 2014)
son of pair skater Mark Ladwig
- Felix George Dunstan (b. 2014)
son of Australian youtubers Rohan and Chloe Dunstan (Life with Beans)
Felix in pop culture
- Felix the Cat
cartoon character
- Felix Hoenikker
dead scientist and inventor of ice,nine, about whom Jonah intends to write a book, in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Felix Gaeta
character on TV's "Battlestar Gallactica"
- Felix Unger
character in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," film and TV series
- Felix
character in web series "Red vs. Blue"
- Felix
character in Golden Sun video games
- Felix Renton
character on animated series "Kim Possible"
- Felix Leiter
character from the James Bond series
- Felix Gunn
character in "Children of the Red King"
- Felix
an Iberian lynx in the animated film Missing Lynx
- Felix
a character from the video game series SSX
- Felix
character in 2008 film Made of Honor
- Felix
minor character in Rick Riordan's Kane Kronicles
- Felix Tapkins
gay bachelor in Dickens's play Is She His Wife? (1837)
- Sir Felix Carbury
character in Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
- Felix Felicis
a luck potion used in Harry Potter (6/7)
- Fix
it Felix Jr., a character in the Disney movie 'Wreck,It Ralph'
- Felix Dawkins
character on TV's "Orphan Black"
- Felix
member of the Volturi, character from the Twilight series
- Felix King
a character on TV's "Road to Avonlea"
- Felix the Rabbit
title character in "Letters from Felix" series about a stuffed
- bunny that travels the globe and writes letters to his human friend
Sophie
- Felix Boulevardez
character in Disney's "The Proud Family"
- Felix De Lacey
character in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- Felix
main character from the 'Once, Then, Now and After' books by Morris Gleitzman
- Felix Taggaro
minor character in hit TV show, "One Tree Hill"
- Felix Nowak
character in "The Key" by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Mats Strandberg
- Felix
younger brother of Audrey in "Finding Audrey" by Sophie Kinsella
- Felix Gunn
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Felix Moore
character in Chronicles of Avonlea, By L.M. Montgomery
- Felix King
character in the Story Girl, by L.M. Montgomery
- Felix Alexius
character in video game "Dragon Age: Inquisition"
- Felix
character in MTV's "Faking It"
- Felix
character from the "Asylum" book series by Madeleine Roux
- Felix
a scrapped character from the TV show "Miraculous Ladybug"
- Felix
a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Felix
lost boy in the tv show "Once Upon A Time"