Felicia

Felicia

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name = Felicia


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meaning = "happiness"
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origin = Latin
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footnotes = The name Felicia (a Latin female version of "Felix", meaning "happiness") is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats.

People

* Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer and one of the contestants in "Swedish Idol 2006"
* St. Felicia Meda, a Poor Clare and Founding Abbess of Pesaro, 1444
* Felicia (Darkstalkers), a catgirl from the Capcom video game series "Darkstalkers"
* Felicia Browne Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
* Felicia Farr (born 1932), actress, widow of Jack Lemmon
* Felicia Hardy, more commonly known by her alias Black Cat, a Marvel Comics character

Other

* Škoda Felicia, an automobile
* "Felicia's Journey", a 1992 novel by Irish novelist William Trevor which was made into a movie by Atom Egoyan
* "Felicia No Capecia" was made famous by Louis Prima in the early 20th century
* Hurricane Felicia, named by the National Hurricane Center in 1997, did not hit land and took no casualties
* 294 Felicia, an asteroid in the main belt of the solar system
* "Felicia" (genus), a genus of the sunflower family (Asteraceae)

ee also

* The Sony FeliCa, a smart card system, sometimes misidentified as "the Sony Felicia".


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