How popular is Felix?

[meow]

I'm pretty keen on using the name Felix but I think it's rising in popularity. Last baby I wanted to call Jasper but it shot up in popularity and entered the top 100 in 2009 so I'm kind of glad we didn't use it as I prefer more unique names.

It's really hard to get good info on the popularity of names in Australia. Best I can see is that it wasn't in the top 100 names for NSW in 2009. In the states it seems to be increasing in popularity but babynamewizard still has it at about the 250th name. Nameberry says it's one of their most searched names- meaning it should shoot up in popularity.

So I'm going for a purely opinion based survey here- what do you think? Do you think it's fairly popular, or likely to become so soon?

[feeb]

I have known a few.

Last year was a Felix in DS1 swimming class.

Personally I see it as a cats name sorry

[meow]

Personally I see it as a cats name sorry

I hear that a lot so I'm hoping that keeps it's popularity at bay

I liked Felix the Cat and I don't mind the association at all.

[meow]

Any ideas?

[deletedit]

OCBA - Top Twenty Names of 2009 gives you the top names for SA by year, there's probably one for each state. There's quite a few sites that rank by popularity.

I'm the same as you - trying to avoid popular names or ones that might get popular soon. Nothing worse than being one of 5 kids in a class with the same name.

[didispunk]

I have to agree with Feb... cats name.. and its common in kinder 3 in my DS class