Flores
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: plural of flor
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/floɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flores is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Peru it is the 2nd most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 58(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 64
- HNHonduras≈1 in 77
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #68 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
433,969 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Floret, a medieval Spanish personal name meaning ‘flower’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Flores is read(measured from records)
Flores 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.
- Spanish73%
plural of flor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
son of Floret, a medieval Spanish personal name meaning ‘flower’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
island, Azores; island, sea, In
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Flores 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #145 | 433,969 | 1 in 767 | 434K | Flores | 521 |
| PE Peru | #2 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | 763K | Flores | 173 |
| PH Philippines | #20 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | — | Flores | 165 |
| AR Argentina | #18 | 226,614 | 1 in 201 | 227K | Flores | 164 |
| BO Bolivia | #122 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 58 | — | Flores | 106 |
| HN Honduras | #4 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | — | Flores | 115 |
| SV El Salvador | #7 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 64 | — | Flores | 119 |
| NI Nicaragua | #6 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 90 | — | Flores | 80 |
433,969 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: the pe-reniec-name-freq register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Flores 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 Italian, sobrenome sardo correspondente a Fiori
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Fiore
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Cebuano, a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Flores, the most common in Visayas and most of Mindanao
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Juan José Floresb. 1800VEpresident of Ecuador (1800–1864)
- José Clemente Orozcob. 1883MXnot in their usual nameMexican artist (1883–1949)
- Lola Floresb. 1923ESSpanish actress, dancer and singer (1923–1995)
- Cilia Floresb. 1956VEFirst Lady of Venezuela from 2013 to 2026
- Francisco Floresb. 1959SVPresident of El Salvador (1959-2016)
- Rosario Floresb. 1963ESSpanish singer and actress
- Quique Floresb. 1965ESSpanish football manager and former player
- Carlos Salcidob. 1980MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Christina Milianb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, songwriter and singer (born 1981)
- Yoshimar Yotúnb. 1990PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 763K | #2 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 583K | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 434K | #40 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 427K | #39 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313K | #55 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 227K | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Flores mean?
- In Spanish, plural of flor
- Where does the name Flores come from?
- son of Floret, a medieval Spanish personal name meaning ‘flower’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Flores?
- In the United States, the national register counted 433,969 people named Flores in 2010, about 1 in 767 residents.
- How common is Flores compared with other names?
- In the United States, Flores is the 145th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Flores?
- A machine transcription gives /floɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Flores have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 434 thousand people named Flores, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flores.
What do you want to know about Flores?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/floresThe 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, “Flores” — the 145th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.