The English name Felicity derives from Latin ‘felicitas’ for ‘good luck, happiness’. This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans around the 17th century, an alternate version is Felicitas.
Felicity is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Felicity isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Felicity ranks 405. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Felicity. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Felicity.
The English name Felicity derives from Latin ‘felicitas’ for ‘good luck, happiness’. This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans around the 17th century, an alternate version is Felicitas.
Who are the Puritans? Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to 'purify' the Church of England. They held strict religious beliefs and advocated for simplicity in worship.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Felicity is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Felicity and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Felicity, you can simply say:
Fox
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Cat
Igloo
Tiger
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Felicity
Felicity
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Felicity sounds like this:
