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The FELIX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,631 1011 0.012 117
United States (1880 census) 1,411 4039 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +30220 +3028 +0.009 +89
Other Countries
Australia 191 7857 0.001 12
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FELIX by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 9,779 400 0.029 289
Arizona 3,304 180 0.064 644
New York 2,313 952 0.012 122
Florida 2,260 1137 0.014 141
Texas 1,681 1804 0.008 81
Top States for FELIX by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 3,304 180 0.064 644
California 9,779 400 0.029 289
Nevada 434 637 0.022 217
New Mexico 298 744 0.016 164
Massachusetts 944 1176 0.015 149

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FELIX live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FELIX represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FELIX in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FELIX by picking someone at random in Arizona than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FELIX

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FELIX surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FELIX in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 826 2.61
Mixed Race 547 1.73
Native American/Alaskan 307 0.97
White (Hispanic) 19,722 62.35
White (Caucasian) 6,703 21.19
Black/African American 3,527 11.15

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FELIX surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FELIX in historical publications

FELIX. Happy : a latinization, or the personal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FELIX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FELIX.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FELIX

The following words are slight variants of FELIX that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.