Given name & surname
Felis
Felis is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Old French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Felis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 104
- 62 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1948. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 241 as a first name in 2020; 187 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Felis’s family of names
In Greek usage, Felis as a surname is a transliteration of Φέλης.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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