Flor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: From Fr. Fleur; also linked to Goth. Bloma 'flower'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/floɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 341(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 368
- CRCosta Rica1 in 423
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 341 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Fr. Fleur; also linked to Goth. Bloma 'flower'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Flor is read(measured from records)
Flor is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish80%
From Fr. Fleur; also linked to Goth. Bloma 'flower'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
flower (structure in angiosperms)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.0%
A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #55 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 341 | 113K | Flor | 105 |
| CO Colombia | #177 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 661 | 31 | Flor | 113 |
| VE Venezuela | #140 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 695 | — | Flor | 62 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 25,132 | 1 in 673 | 25K | Flor | 46 |
| US United States | — | 23,797 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Flor | 340 |
| SV El Salvador | #146 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Flor | 40 |
| CR Costa Rica | #23 | 12,065 | 1 in 423 | 12K | Flor | 47 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENIEC — DNI population names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Flor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, 18 (31) août, 18 (31) décembre. Flore est son équivalent français. Fête : 26 octobre.
as a nameRussian Names
In German, weibl. Vom., verkürzte Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Portuguese, flower
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Flor Alpaertsb. 1876BEBelgian composer, conductor, pedagogue (1876–1954)
- Flor Van Reethb. 1884BEBelgian architect (1884–1975)
- Flor Peetersb. 1903BEFlemish organist, composer and music pedagogue (1903–1986)
- Flor O'Mahonyb. 1946IEIrish politician
- Flor Procunab. 1952MXMexican stage, television and film actress
- Flor Contemplacionb. 1953PHFilipina executed for murder (1953–1995)
- Flor Ferracob. 1980ARAustralian actress
- Florencia Bertottib. 1983ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress
- Flor Decleirb. 1990BEBelgian actor
- Flor Ruizb. 1991COOlympic javelin thrower
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 113K | #7 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 25K | #79 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,427 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 12K | #36 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 404 | #1,427 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 81 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 70 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 31 | #90 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Flor?
- A machine transcription gives /floɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Flor mean, and where does it come from?
- From Fr. Fleur; also linked to Goth. Bloma 'flower'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Flor a male or female name?
- Flor is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Flor?
- In the etymology graph, Flora, Fiorella and Florinda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Flor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Flor in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flor.
- How common is the name Flor?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 25,132 people named Flor in 2024, about 1 in 673 residents.
- How common is Flor compared with other names?
- In Peru, Flor is the 55th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Flor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/florThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Flor” — the 55th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.