Feliks
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a male given name, equivalent to English Felix
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/fɛliks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Feliks is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 11th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 230as Felix
- NINicaragua≈1 in 263as Felix
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Feliks itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #579 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 named Felix, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Felix in PE Peru, US United States, VE Venezuela and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Felix
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Feliks is read
(measured from records)Feliks is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish31%
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Feliks in English.
- Ukrainian18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Feliks in Ukrainian.
- Russian7.6%
"happy."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Feliks counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 720 | — | Felix | 57 |
| PH Philippines | #427 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 872 | listed | Felix | 109 |
| PE Peru | #47 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | — | Felix | 108 |
| US United States | #960 | 80,554as Felix | 1 in 4.1K | 80K | Felix | 463 |
| VE Venezuela | #73 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | — | Felix | 92 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #11 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 230 | — | Felix | 93 |
| EC Ecuador | #113 | 32,483as Felix | 1 in 520 | 32K | Felix | 58 |
| NI Nicaragua | #17 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Felix | 43 |
| PL Poland | #347 | 9,938 | 1 in 3.9K | 9.9K | Feliks | 75 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Feliks is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Estonian, a male given name derived from Latin Felix
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Felix Ib. 300ITPope and bishop of Rome from 269 to 274
- Felix Grundyb. 1777USAmerican politician (1777-1840)
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdyb. 1809DEGerman composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
- Felix Hausdorffb. 1868DEGerman mathematician (*1868 – †1942)
- Felix Blochb. 1905CHSwiss physicist (1905-1983)
- Felix Baumgartnerb. 1969ATAustrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper (1969–2025)
- John Cenab. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and professional wrestler (born 1977)
- PewDiePieb. 1989SEnot in their usual nameSwedish YouTuber (born 1989)
- Holger Badstuberb. 1989DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player (born 1989)
- Felix IVITPope and bishop of Rome from 526 to 530
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)64 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9.9K | #175 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9.8K | #176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 584 | #18,452 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 466 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #8,091 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2000 | 1 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Feliks mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Felix Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Feliks?
- In the etymology graph, Felix, Felice and Félix are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Feliks a male or female name?
- Feliks is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Slovenia (SURS, 2025), among others.
- How do you pronounce Feliks?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛliks/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Feliks have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 297 thousand people named Felix in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Feliks most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Feliks is densest in Poland — about 1 in 3.9 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Feliks?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,938 people named Feliks in 2026, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Feliks compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Feliks is the 11th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Feliks?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feliksThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Feliks” — the 11th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.