Florin
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/florin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Florin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 141(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.4K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, 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)
Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Florin is read(measured from records)
Florin is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Romanian53%
FLORÍN, florini, s. m. 1. Denumire a unor monede de aur și de argint care au circulat și în țările românești până în sec. XIX; fiorin. 2. Unitate bănească în Olanda; gulden. ¶ FIORÍNT s. m. v. fiorin. ¶ FIORÍN, fiorini, s. m. Nume dat mai multor monede de aur și de argint, bătute în diverse țări, care au circulat și la noi până în secolul trecut; florin. [Pr.: fi-o-. - Var.: (înv.) fiorínt s. m.].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- English12%
Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
Le nom de cette monnaie vient, lui aussi, de Florence, ville des fleurs (de lys). Le mot se disait fiorino en italien puisque dérivé de fiore (fleur). On sait qu’il s’agit de l’unité monétaire des Pays-Bas.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Spanish6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Florin in Spanish.
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Florin, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Florin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #142 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 141 | 344K | Florin | 72 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 4 | Florin | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,784 | 1 in 13K | 4K | Florin | 40 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Florin | 135 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 237 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 272 | Florin | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 99 | Florin | 57 |
| MD Moldova | — | 550 | 1 in 6.1K | 550 | — | 3 |
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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); e-services.md — living population register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Florin 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 German, from a coin name meaning 'florin'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ) Florin: männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs, der auf den römischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Norwegian Nynorsk, florin (Florentine gold currency)
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)
- Florin Piersicb. 1936RORomanian actor
- Florin Zamfirescub. 1949RORomanian actor
- Florin Răducioiub. 1970RORomanian footballer
- Florin Cîțub. 1972RO69th Prime Minister of Romania (2020-2021)
- Florin Șerbanb. 1975RORomanian film director (born 1975)
- Cezar Florin Ouatub. 1980RORomanian opera countertenor, singer and pianist
- Florin Mergeab. 1985RORomanian tennis player
- Florin Nițăb. 1987RORomanian association football player
- Florin Andoneb. 1993RORomanian footballer
- Andrei Rațiub. 1998ROnot in their usual nameRomanian 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)
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 72 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2019 | 344K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2019 | 344K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4K | #470 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.8K | #1,106 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 550 | #441 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2021 | 185 | #2,577 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 99 | #713 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2016 | 11 | #1,916 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 5 | #764 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 4 | #1,769 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Florin mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Florin?
- In the etymology graph, Floro and Florinus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Florin a male or female name?
- Florin is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Florin?
- A machine transcription gives /florin/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Florin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 thousand people named Florin in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled florin.
- How common is the name Florin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,784 people named Florin, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Florin compared with other names?
- In Romania, Florin is the 142nd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Florin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/florinThe 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, “Florin” — the 142nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.