Given name & surname
Felisa
“one who is lucky and successful”
Felisa is a variant of Felicia. In Latin use, Felicia carries the interpretation “one who is lucky and successful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Felisa is a variant of Felicia. In Latin use, Felicia carries the interpretation “one who is lucky and successful.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Felisa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,021
- 0 boys · 2,021 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 92 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 92 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,315 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.
Felisa’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Felisa has a short form in Lisa. Felisa has a related form in Felicia. In Galician usage, Felisa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Felicia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Felisa has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Felisa
- Felisa Wolfe-SimonAmerican geomicrobiologistborn 2000
- Felisa MiceliArgentine economist and politicianborn 1952
- Felisa VerdejoSpanish scientistborn 1950
- Felisa Martín BravoSpanish physicist1898–1979
- Felisa Rincón de GautierPuerto Rican politician, Mayor of San Juan1897–1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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