Felita

Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442

Peak · girls
1968 · 53 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
783
since 1954

Felita over time

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Rank among girls' names. Felita has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #1,575, 1968girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1993#13,4425
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1990#12,9585
1989#10,8476
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1986#9,5456
1985#6,9559
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1983#10,2755
1982#10,5175
1981#5,57112
1980#10,3925
1979#6,6969
1978#4,67914
1977#5,88810
1976#3,09523
1975#3,63718
1974#3,86316
1973#2,40531
1972#2,35631
1971#2,37532
1970#2,26734
1969#2,10236
1968#1,57553
1967#1,92137
1966#1,76641
1965#1,82939
1964#1,94737
1963#1,83940
1962#2,26428
1961#1,83839
1960#1,83538
1959#2,10829
1958#1,98531
1957#2,21825
1956#3,32113
1955#3,57111
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First appearance
1954

The first year at least five girls were named Felita! It came in at #3,718, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Felita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1954
  • Peaked 1968 at #1,575 (53 births)
  • Births halved by 1974, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 30,951
  • Highest: 1 in 30,951 girls born in 1968 were named Felita (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 361,814 girls born in 1993 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 49.6% of all girls named Felita (388) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s119#1,985 (1958)#2,820
1960s388#1,575 (1968)#1,892
1970s218#2,267 (1970)#3,726
1980s48#5,571 (1981)#9,157
1990s10#12,958 (1990)#13,200

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Felita in 1968

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#1,575
53 births · 1 in 30,951 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #1,575Felita53
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 30,951 of them was named Felita, which outranked 80.8% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Felita
  1. #1,559Shantell54
  2. #1,559Toby54
  3. #1,559Winona54
  4. #1,575Felita53
  5. #1,575Brook53
  6. #1,575Cecile53
  7. #1,575Dreama53
  8. #1,594Alta52
  9. #1,594Christiane52
  10. #1,594Darnell52

Tied with 18 names at #1,575; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. 3,132Coretta#3,656#524
  2. 1,257Tamika#1,980#723
  3. 1,150Tamiko#1,702#552
  4. 607Chantel#1,348#741
  5. 490Chantal#1,441#951
Fallers
  1. 602Wende#857#1,459
  2. 545Zina#959#1,504
  3. 341Evonne#970#1,311
  4. 294Portia#902#1,196
  5. 285Mariann#973#1,258

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1968