Feli

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Feli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 751K
  • ESSpain1 in 820K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

131 people, 2020

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 751K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Feli 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.

Where Feli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1311 in 2.5M81Feli102
BR Brazil901 in 2.4M90—1
ES Spain611 in 820K63Feli32
NL Netherlands231 in 751K23Feli7
IT Italy≈2 est.≈1 in 35M—Feli4
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

131 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Feli is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Spanish

    Also written Felu, ফেলু, Fell, Phela, ফেল

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Peru

    Also written Féli, Felí, F͟e͟l͟i͟

  • Italian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, India

    Also written Leina, Léina, Leïna

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Féli

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Féli

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Spain

    Also written Felí

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Feli is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In men, v., to beg, to ask for, to importune; to ,be in want, to be poor. Negi vetingo famia igi lénga ta yénga hgi va, He is poor, for that reason do his children work for him. Ke feli i tatda a ngi houla, Then poverty or want seized him. Wu hani go wa feli, Ye know not what ye ask. Nya hti velingo 1é polon navo va, I am always in want of money

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Latin, dative singular of fēlēs

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, to fail (not succeed)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In smr, price, value

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ami, to give

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Azerbaijani, verbal

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Feli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—283#27,768

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

Is Feli a male or female name?
Feli is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Feli have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 131 people named Feli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled feli.
Where is Feli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Feli is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 751 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Feli?
In the United States, the national register counted 131 people named Feli in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Feli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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