Florez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: This derives in part from the L name Florus (see Flower 1), but has also absorbed the Gmc name Froila, a deriv

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Florez 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.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 374(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 508K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 58as Flores

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Florez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

433,969 named Flores, 2010

#68 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
521 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 374 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FloresLatin(measured from records)
ФлоресCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Flores in PE Peru, US United States, AR Argentina and 6 more.

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)

This derives in part from the L name Florus (see Flower 1), but has also absorbed the Gmc name Froila, a deriv. of the element fro lord, master. Var.: Flores (also borne by Sefardic Jews). cony, of obscure, probably Gaul., etymology. Var.: Foix (representing the original Gascon pronunciation, /fqa/; now common in Catalonia).

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Florez 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.

Where Florez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#145433,969as Flores1 in 767434KFlores521
PE Peru#2≈350,000 est.≈1 in 92763KFlores173
PH Philippines#20≈340,000 est.≈1 in 324—Flores165
AR Argentina#18226,614as Flores1 in 201227KFlores164
BO Bolivia#122≈200,000 est.≈1 in 58—Flores106
CO Colombia#40≈130,000 est.≈1 in 37493Florez192
HN Honduras#4≈120,000 est.≈1 in 77—Flores115
SV El Salvador#7≈100,000 est.≈1 in 64—Flores119
NI Nicaragua#6≈69,000 est.≈1 in 90—Flores80
BR Brazil#1884171 in 508K417Flores197

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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Florez is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Flórez

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Flórez, Flòrez, Floréz

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Flórez

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Flórez, Fľóŕêž

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Flórez

  • Bulgarian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Flörëž, Flórez

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Rafael del Riego, b. 1784Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, b. 1885Darío Villalba, b. 1939Alfonso Flórez, b. 1952Nolberto Molina, b. 1953Juan Diego Flórez, b. 1973Fátima Flórez, b. 1978Olmes García, b. 1992Miguel Flórez López, b. 1996El Malilla, b. 1999

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Florez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,377
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,388
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.8K#3,709
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—417#20,032
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—93#32
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Where does the name Florez come from?
This derives in part from the L name Florus (see Flower 1), but has also absorbed the Gmc name Froila, a deriv. of the element fro lord, master. Var.: Flores (also borne by Sefardic Jews). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
What does the name Florez mean?
Recorded meaning: This derives in part from the L name Florus (see Flower 1), but has also absorbed the Gmc name Froila, a deriv.
In which country does Florez 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.
How common is the name Florez?
In Brazil, the national register counted 417 people named Florez, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
How common is Florez compared with other names?
In the United States, Florez is the 145th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Florez” — the 145th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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