Felix: meaning and UK use

What does Felix mean?

Felix began as a Roman nickname from the Latin word for lucky or successful. Feliks is a related form in several languages.

Language or name family covered

Latin

Meaning or derivation

Lucky or successful

Our browsing group

boy; classic, vintage

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Sources for this entry — reviewed 2026-10-07:

• Behind the Name — Felix

Pronunciation and related forms

FEE-liks (English)

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Related forms recorded in the reference: Feliks. These may be full forms, diminutives or forms in another language; they are not necessarily pronounced alike or counted together in statistics.

How popular is Felix?

In 2025, 811 baby boys in England and Wales were registered as Felix, making it the 59th most popular boys’ name. That is up 3 places on 2024, when it ranked 62nd. Ten years earlier, in 2015, it ranked 95th, so it has climbed 36 places in a decade. 2025 is its highest ranking in the ONS series, which starts in 1996. These figures cover England and Wales, not the whole UK.

2025 rank (boys)

59th

2025 registrations

811

Best rank in this series

59th (2025)

Every year from 1996 to 2025

Felix: rank and number of baby boys by year (ONS)

Year	Rank	Babies
2025	59	811
2024	62	810
2023	73	705
2022	77	733
2021	71	807
2020	77	749
2019	88	694
2018	93	689
2017	100	661
2016	99	666
2015	95	680
2014	98	614
2013	91	666
2012	114	558
2011	131	492
2010	122	511
2009	122	485
2008	117	481
2007	118	472
2006	140	382
2005	143	354
2004	153	300
2003	152	301
2002	146	283
2001	145	270
2000	145	255
1999	151	233
1998	177	190
1997	189	171
1996	210	149

The sum of published counts in this 1996–2025 boys series is 15,172. This is a lower bound where years are suppressed, not the number of living people with the name. A best rank is the best position within this series; it does not establish an all-time record.

Sources: ONS release, 2025; girls' dataset; boys' dataset. Our 20 top-ten positions were checked against Table 1 in the 2025 workbooks. The history chart and spelling comparisons come from the separate ONS 1996–2025 workbook, checked 7 October 2026. Spelling variants are separate entries. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate statistics.

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Names to compare with Felix

These suggestions share a browsing group and one or more of our style tags or source-context labels. They are taste comparisons, not etymological relatives or a popularity ranking.

• Arthurvintage, classic · Meaning unknown
• Oscarclassic, vintage · Possibly deer friend
• Reubenclassic, vintage · Behold, a son
• Theodorevintage, classic · Gift of God
• Tobiasclassic, vintage · A form of Tobiah
• Albievintage · A short form of Albert

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Registering or changing the name

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