Girl · Latin
Flora
Say it: FLOR-uh
Meaning
Latin flora, from flos 'flower'; also the name of the Roman goddess of flowers.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Found as a Roman personal name and a saint's name; in Scotland it was long used to render Gaelic Fionnghal.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 68,903 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1885, about 1 in 299 girls
- 274 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
LatinScottishEnglishItalianFrenchAndeanArgentineSpanishBrazilian
The family of the name
| Italian | Flora |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Flora |
| French | Flore |
| Portuguese | Flora |
Famous bearers
- Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine
- Flora Tristán, French-Peruvian writer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Roman inscriptions and tombstones
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.