Flora

What Flora means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Flora yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,337 in 2015, #607 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Flora?

US: Rising: up from #1337 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #305 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 365 girls got the name (#68 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,328 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,312 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 389 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.5 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.81 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.76 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Flora is #607 in the US and #241 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Flora were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Flory7 US
• Flori0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Flora

Girls

• Cecilia#108possibly “blind”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Aura#817“breeze”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Flora’s. Rank is US 2025.