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Felice
How to Pronounce Felice
Pronounced feh-LEE-chay /feˈlitʃe/Medium
Meaning: Felice is the Italian masculine name from the Latin felix, meaning lucky, fortunate, or happy. Long used in Italy, it reached American records with Italian immigrant families in the early twentieth century.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Felice is the Italian form of the Latin felix, lucky or happy, and a traditional men's name in Italy. It appears in American records from around 1910, carried by Italian immigrant families, with a high near 1921.
It was never common here, given to only a couple dozen boys a year at that high and fading through the twentieth century. A man named Felice then would be a great-grandfather today, usually of Italian heritage.
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What does the name Felice mean?
It is the Italian masculine name from the Latin felix, meaning lucky or happy.
How do you pronounce Felice?
It's said feh-LEE-chay /feˈlitʃe/, three syllables with the stress on the second.
Is Felice a boy or girl name?
Felice here is used as a boy's name, the traditional Italian men's name.
Is Felice a popular name?
No, it was always rare in the United States, an Italian name given to only a few boys a year, most often in the early nineteen-hundreds.