Felicia
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | happiness |
| Other names | |
| Short form(s) | Licia, Fish, Lica, Elle, Fliss, Felly, Lish, Fia, Ellie |
| Related names | Felix, Felicity, Félicie |
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The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective felix, meaning "happy, lucky", though in the neuter plural form felicia it literally means "happy things" and often occurred in the phrase tempora felicia, "happy times". The sense of it as a feminine personal name appeared in post-Classical use and is of uncertain origin. It is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats.
People
- Felicia Nimue Ackerman (born 1947), Brown University Philosophy professor, monthly op-ed columnist, poet and author
- Felicia Barton (born 1982), a semifinalist on the eighth season of American Idol
- Felicia Brandström (born 1987), Swedish singer and one of the contestants in Swedish Idol 2006
- Felicia Chin (born 1984), Singaporean actress
- Felicia Cornaro (d. 1111), Venetian dogaressa and de facto politician
- Felicia Day (born 1979), American actress
- Felicia Farr (born 1932), actress, widow of Jack Lemmon
- Felicia Hano (born 1998), American artistic gymnast
- Felicia Browne Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
- Felicia Pearson (born 1980), American actress from The Wire
- Phylicia Rashad (born 1948), American actress
Fictional characters
- Felicia, a character played by Lynsey Pennycooke in the web-series Corner Shop Show.
- Felicia (Darkstalkers), a catgirl from the Capcom video game series Darkstalkers
- Felicia, one of the titular main character's children from the DreamWorks animated film Shrek Forever After
- Felicia Hardy, more commonly known by her alias, Black Cat, a Marvel Comics character
- Felicia Tilman, a fictional character in Desperate Housewives played by Harriet Sansom Harris
- Felicia Forrester, a fictional character in The Bold and the Beautiful
- Felicia Jones, a character from the American soap opera General Hospital
- Felicia Sevigny, a fictional character in the science fiction series by Catherine Cerveny from Orbit Books, containing "The Rule of Luck", "The Chaos of Luck" and "The Game of Luck".
Arts
- Felicia's Journey, a 1992 novel by Irish novelist William Trevor which was made into a movie by Atom Egoyan
- "Felicia", a song by The Constellations
- "Felicia No Capecia", a song by Louis Prima in the early 20th century
- Felicia's svenska suite, a 1978 album by Cornelis Vreeswijk, featuring the character Felicia from Aksel Sandemose's 1958 novel Varulven
- Felicia, a 1965 documentary short film
Sciences
- Hurricane Felicia (disambiguation), three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
- 294 Felicia, an asteroid in the main belt of the solar system
- Felicia (genus), a genus of daisy-like flowering plants
Other
- Škoda Felicia, an automobile
- Bye, Felicia, a dismissive send-off from the movie Friday
See also
- #ByeFelicia, a Jordin Sparks mixtape
- The Sony FeliCa, a smart card system, sometimes misidentified as "the Sony Felicia".