Felix

Latin
"happy, fortunate"

Felix Origin and Meaning

The name Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "happy, fortunate".

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.

# 192 in the US

Felix Rank in US Top 1000

# 3 on Nameberry

Felix Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Felix Popularity

Famous People Named Felix

  • 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"