Felix

Latin

"happy, fortunate"

Updated Thu Mar 20 2025

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

# 2 on Nameberry

Felix Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Felix

192US2023
2Nameberry2025
25Canada2023
182Future2028
73England2023
163Scotland2023
59Australia2023
34New Zealand2024
14Germany2024
95Netherlands2021
86Sweden2024
37Norway2024
20Denmark2023
59Belgium2023
62Switzerland2023
5Austria2023
16Cats2023

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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)

The name 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"

International Variations of the name Felix

Felic
Irish
Félicien
French
Félix
French
Felice
Italian
Feliciano
Spanish
Felex
Spanish
Felicio
Spanish
Felixiano
Spanish
Feliziano
Spanish
Feliz
Portuguese
Feel
Danish
Bodog
Hungarian
Feliks
Polish
Feliks
Russian
Felicjan
Slavic