Felix

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Felix is a male given name and a common family name .

Origin and meaning

Felix comes from the Latin ( felix , felicis ) and means "favored by luck", "happy", "successful", or "the lucky one". Female versions of the first name are Felicitas , Felicia , Feliksa and Felizitas . The Italian form of the name is Felice .

distribution

At the beginning of the 20th century, Felix was a moderately popular first name in Germany. Its popularity continued to decline towards the middle of the century. From the beginning of the 1970s, however, its popularity rose sharply again. Since the 1990s, it has often been among the ten most awarded names of the respective year.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Willms, Jennifer (2009): The great book of 10,000 first names. Origin, meaning, variants. Munich: Compact Verlag. S.203 ISBN 9783817469031
  2. Statistics on "Popular first names"