Felicia

Felicia
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	happiness
Other names
Short form(s)	Licia, Fish, Lica, Fliss, Felly, Lish, Fia
Related names	Felix, Felicity, Félicie

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The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective felix, meaning "happy", 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, Brown University Philosophy professor, monthly op-ed columnist, poet and author
Felicia Barton, a semifinalist on the eighth season of American Idol
Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer and one of the contestants in Swedish Idol 2006
Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
Felicia Day, American actress
Felicia Farr (born 1932), actress, widow of Jack Lemmon
Felicia Hano, American artistic gymnast
Felicia Browne Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
Felicia Pearson, American actress from The Wire
Phylicia Rashad, American actress
Felicia, Entertainer

Fictional characters

Felicia (Darkstalkers), a catgirl from the Capcom video game series Darkstalkers
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

Literature and music

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

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