Felix
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.
variants
- Felia , Felice , Felici , Feliça , Felicia , Feliciano , Felicianus , Félicie Felicien , Felício , Felicissimus , Felicitas , Felicetti , Feliks, Feliksas , Flisch, Felician
Name days
- January 14th : Felix von Nola
- March 1 : Felix II († 492), Pope
- March 18th : Felix of Gerona
- March 26th : Felix von Trier
- April 15 : Felix (Byzantium) († 141), Bishop of Byzantion
- May 13th (originally March 8th): Felix of Burgundy († 647/648), bishop, saint and "Apostle of East Anglia"
- May 18 : Felix von Cantalice (1515–1587), lay brother in the Capuchin order, Christian saint
- May 31 : Felix of Nicosia
- June 5 : Felix von Fritzlar († around 790), Benedictine monk, Christian martyr and saint
- June 16 : Felix and Maurus
- July 12th : Felix of Africa († 304), Christian martyr and saint
- July 29 : Felix II († 365), antipope (or pope)
- August 30th : Felix (of Rome) and Adauctus
- September 11 : Felix and Regula († around 300), Christian martyrs and saints
- September 19 : Felix and Constantia (1st century), Christian martyrs and saints
- October 12 : Felix III. († 530), Pope
- November 5th : Felix and Eusebius (1st century), Christian martyrs and saints
- November 20 : Felix of Valois († November 4, 1212), canonized in 1262
- December 30 : Felix I († 274), Pope
Name bearer
Roman name bearers
- Fulvius Felix , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix († 62), Roman consul 52
- Gaius Rusticelius Felix Afer , Roman Koroplast
- Gaius Paconius Felix , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix († 78 BC), Roman politician and general
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Consul 33) , Roman Consul 33
- Lucius Faenius Felix , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Lucius Mummius Felix Cornelianus , Roman consul 237
- Mark Antony Felix , 11th Procurator of the Province of Judea , is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles
- Marcus Staberius Felix Primillanus , Roman lawyer
- Publius Cassius Felix , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Publius Sextilius Felix , Roman governor
- Titus Flavius Felix , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Flavius Felix , Roman army master in the 5th century
- Felix (jurist) , late ancient Roman jurist in the 6th century
- Felix Asinianus , Roman state slave in the 1st century
- Felix , Title Roman Emperor since it was first adopted by Commodus 185, was later usually with the enthronement accepted
Further first name carriers
- Feliks Büttner (* 1940), German painter and graphic artist
- Feliks Dzierżyński (1877–1926), Polish-Russian professional revolutionary and head of the secret police
- Feliks Falk (* 1941), Polish film director, playwright and screenwriter
- Feliks Janiewicz (1762–1848), Polish-British composer and violinist
- Feliks Jasieński (1861–1929), Polish art collector and art critic
- Feliks Jasiński (1856–1899), Polish civil engineer
- Feliks Kon (also Felix Kohn , 1864–1941), Polish ethnographer and communist
- Feliks Kull (1903–1942), Estonian football, bandy and ice hockey player
- Feliks Łubieński (1758–1848), Polish politician, lawyer, Prussian count and captain
- Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946), Polish composer, conductor, organist, music teacher and papal chamberlain
- Feliks Parnell (* 1953), Polish cameraman
- Feliks Przytycki (* 1951), Polish mathematician
- Feliks Rączkowski (1906–1989), Polish organist, composer and music teacher
- Feliks Rogoziński (1879–1940), Polish physiologist and pet nutritionist
- Feliks Rybicki (1899–1978), Polish composer, pianist and conductor
- Feliks Tych (1929–2015), Polish historian
- Feliks Władysław Starczewski (1868–1945), Polish composer
- Feliks Wrobel (1894–1954), Polish composer
- Feliks Zemdegs (* 1995), Australian speed cuber and world record holder in solving the magic cube
- Felix V (1383-1451), antipope
- Felix Baumgartner (* 1969), Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete, who was the first to jump out of the stratosphere in 2012
- Felix Blume (* 1984), real name of the German rapper Kollegah
- Felix Brych (* 1975), German football referee
- Félix Cárdenas (* 1972), Colombian racing cyclist
- Felix Czeike (1926–2006), Austrian historian and popular educator
- Felix Dahn (1834–1912), German professor of law, writer and historian
- Felix Dvorak (* 1936), Austrian actor, cabaret artist, artistic director and writer
- Felix von Eckardt (1903–1979), German journalist, screenwriter and politician
- Félix Faure (1841–1899), moderate French republican politician
- Felix Genn (* 1950), Bishop of Münster; 2003 to 2009 Bishop of Essen
- Felix Grundy (1777–1840), American lawyer and politician
- Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), German mathematician
- Felix da Housecat (* 1971), American DJ and producer
- Felix Stephan Huber (* 1957), Swiss multimedia artist
- Felix Huby (* 1938), German journalist, screenwriter and writer
- Felix Jaehn (* 1994), German DJ
- Felix Jaeger (* 1997), German handball player
- Félix Kir (1876–1968), French clergyman and politician, namesake of a drink
- Felix Kjellberg (* 1989), Swedish Youtuber
- Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician
- Felix Latzke (* 1942), Austrian soccer player and coach
- Felix Leitner (* 1996), Austrian biathlete
- Felix von Leitner (* 1973), German blogger
- Felix Loch (* 1989), German luge rider
- Felix Locher (1882–1969) Swiss inventor and actor
- Felix Magath (* 1953), German soccer coach
- Félix Mantilla (* 1974), Spanish tennis player
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), German composer
- Felix Monsén (* 1994), Swedish ski racer
- Felix Neureuther (* 1984), German ski racer
- Felix Passlack (* 1998), German soccer player
- Felix Pistor (1888-1937), Austrian politician of the Landbund (LBd)
- Felix Platte (* 1996), German soccer player
- Félix Sánchez (* 1977), Dominican hurdler
- Félix Savón (* 1967), Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
- Felix Schmidl (* 1989), German handball goalkeeper
- Felix Schröter (* 1996), German soccer player
- Felix Schwenke (* 1979), German local politician (SPD)
- Félix Sellier (1893-1965), Belgian racing cyclist
- Felix Steiner (1896–1966), German general in the Waffen SS
- Felix Stephensen (* 1990), Norwegian poker player
- Felix Strasser (1976-2017), German director and theater educator
- Felix Uduokhai (* 1997), German soccer player
- Felix von Urgell († 818), theologian and bishop
- Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), Swiss, later French painter, graphic artist, wood engraver and writer
- Félix Miéli Venerando , goalkeeper of the Brazilian world championship team in 1970
- Felix Wankel (1902-1988), German businessman, a mechanical engineer and inventor of the Wankel motor
- Felix Zwayer , German football referee
- Heinrich Felix von Harburg (around 1080–1153), archbishop and temporarily imperial administrator
stage name
- Felix (musician) , British DJ and producer
Fictional characters
- Felix Krull from the novel Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
- Felix (children's book series) from the children's book series by Annette Langen and Constanza Droop
- Felix the Cat , comic and film character
- Felix (son of Entoria) , son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology
- Felix the Desired , from the novel of the same name by Peter Rosegger
family name
See also
- San Felix , (disambiguation)
- St. Felix , (disambiguation)
- Feliks Stamm Tournament , named after the Polish boxing teacher Feliks Stamm (1901–1976)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Willms, Jennifer (2009): The great book of 10,000 first names. Origin, meaning, variants. Munich: Compact Verlag. S.203 ISBN 9783817469031
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"