Felix
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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 for boys#175 US
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.
Felix for girls#9667 US
Typically used as a boy name, the light, cheerful Felix may appeal to those who like Felicity but want something less frilly, along the lines of Lennox, Lux, and Maddox. Derived from Latin to mean "happy, successful, and fortunate", Felix is given to a handful of girls most years in the US.
Actress Debby Ryan and singer Joshua Dun named their daughter Felix Winter in 2025.
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 · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #266 | 1,379 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #263 | 1,377 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #247 | 1,511 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #246 | 1,513 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #228 | 1,654 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #222 | 1,692 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #225 | 1,668 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #194 | 1,958 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #193 | 1,974 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #192 | 1,897 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #177 | 2,081 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #175 | 2,064 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Felix on lists
Famous Felixs
- Felix MendelssohnBoy
German composer
- Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePieBoy
Swedish Youtuber
- Felix BaumgartnerBoy
Austrian skydiver
- Felix JonesBoy
American football player
- Felix Lope de VegaBoy
Spanish playwright and poet
- Felix NadarBoy
pioneering French photographer
- Felix PipesBoy
Austrian tennis player
- Felix SolisBoy
American actor
- Felix SandmanBoy
Swedish pop,singer
- Felix VallottonBoy
Swiss painter and printmaker
- Felix Felixovich YusupovBoy
assassin of Rasputin
- Felix DzerzhinskyBoy
notorious Soviet statesman
- Felix BlochBoy
Swiss physicist and Nobel prize winner
- Felix Leopold Marie Guillaume (b. 1984)Boy
Prince of Luxembourg, son of Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa
- Felix Radford (b. 1991)Boy
son of director Michael Radford
- Felix Lee (b. 2000)Boy
Korean,Australian rapper and member of South Korean boy band Stray Kids
- Felix Henrik Valdemar Christian (b. 2002)Boy
Prince of Denmark, son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- Felix Delaney (b. 2007)Boy
son of actors Fiona O'Carroll and Martin Delaney
- Felix Watson (b. 2007)Boy
son of actor Barry Watson
- Felix Griffiths (b. 2008)Boy
son of actress Gillian Anderson
- Felix Handelman (b. 2011)Boy
son of actress Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman
- Felix Chang Grant (b. 2013)Boy
son of English actor Hugh Grant
- Felix Rye Ladwig (b. 2014)Boy
son of pair skater Mark Ladwig
- Felix George Dunstan (b. 2014)Boy
son of Australian youtubers Rohan and Chloe Dunstan (Life with Beans)
- Felix Winter Dun (born 2025)Girl
daughter of American actress Debby Ryan and musician Josh Dun
Felix in pop culture
- Felix the CatBoy
cartoon character
- Felix HoenikkerBoy
dead scientist and inventor of ice,nine, about whom Jonah intends to write a book, in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Felix GaetaBoy
character on TV's "Battlestar Gallactica"
- Felix UngerBoy
character in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," film and TV series
- FelixBoy
character in web series "Red vs. Blue"
- FelixBoy
character in Golden Sun video games
- Felix RentonBoy
character on animated series "Kim Possible"
- Felix LeiterBoy
character from the James Bond series
- Felix GunnBoy
character in "Children of the Red King"
- FelixBoy
an Iberian lynx in the animated film Missing Lynx
- FelixBoy
a character from the video game series SSX
- FelixBoy
character in 2008 film Made of Honor
- FelixBoy
minor character in Rick Riordan's Kane Kronicles
- Felix TapkinsBoy
gay bachelor in Dickens's play Is She His Wife? (1837)
- Sir Felix CarburyBoy
character in Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
- Felix FelicisBoy
a luck potion used in Harry Potter (6/7)
- FixBoy
it Felix Jr., a character in the Disney movie 'Wreck,It Ralph'
- Felix DawkinsBoy
character on TV's "Orphan Black"
- FelixBoy
member of the Volturi, character from the Twilight series
- Felix KingBoy
a character on TV's "Road to Avonlea"
- Felix the RabbitBoy
title character in "Letters from Felix" series about a stuffed
- bunny that travels the globe and writes letters to his human friendBoy
Sophie
- Felix BoulevardezBoy
character in Disney's "The Proud Family"
- Felix De LaceyBoy
character in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- FelixBoy
main character from the 'Once, Then, Now and After' books by Morris Gleitzman
- Felix TaggaroBoy
minor character in hit TV show, "One Tree Hill"
- Felix NowakBoy
character in "The Key" by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Mats Strandberg
- FelixBoy
younger brother of Audrey in "Finding Audrey" by Sophie Kinsella
- Felix GunnBoy
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Felix MooreBoy
character in Chronicles of Avonlea, By L.M. Montgomery
- Felix KingBoy
character in the Story Girl, by L.M. Montgomery
- Felix AlexiusBoy
character in video game "Dragon Age: Inquisition"
- FelixBoy
character in MTV's "Faking It"
- FelixBoy
character from the "Asylum" book series by Madeleine Roux
- FelixBoy
a scrapped character from the TV show "Miraculous Ladybug"
- FelixBoy
a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- FelixBoy
lost boy in the tv show "Once Upon A Time"