Given name
Feliciana
Feliciana is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.
Original LatinFelicianus
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Latin Fēlīciāna, built from English Felicia + -ana.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Feliciana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 588
- 0 boys · 588 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,666 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,666 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,549 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Feliciana’s family of names
In Latin usage, Feliciana has a related form in Felicianus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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