Florence

What Florence means

Means “flowering, flourishing”

Borrowed from French Florence f, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom.

Source: Wiktionary, “Florence” (revision 93505357), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Florence?

US: Rising: up from #1175 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #23 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1893, when 3,231 girls got the name (#7 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,019 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 132 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 242 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 OR (1.84 per 1,000 girls), MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Florence is #391 in the US and #5 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 Florence 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

• Florance5 US

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 Florence

Girls

• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Loretta#606Diminutive of Laura, meaning “laurel tree”^*
• Maxine#496Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,106 in 2015, #496 in 2025
• Rosalia#608Same root as Rosalie, meaning “rose”^*
• Aura#817“breeze”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*

For a brother

• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Lionel#659“lion”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*

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 Florence’s. Rank is US 2025.