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Girl · Latin, through English
Primrose
Say it: PRIM-rohz
Meaning
The flower, from Medieval Latin prima rosa 'first rose'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Victorian flower name, never common.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 599 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 19,000 girls
- 84 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
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.