Fleur
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flœʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fleur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 882(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 9.9K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 882 (inferred from the name graph)
19,591 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fleur is read(measured from records)
Fleur is one spelling over 3 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.
- French35%
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Du latin flos/floris « fleur »; forme francisée de Flore.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Nom commun « fleur », symbole de beauté et de pureté.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du français fleur; prénom d’inspiration naturelle.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
French word name meaning ‘flower’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English34%
Old French; a flower; see Flora
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- Dutch15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fleur in Dutch.
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)
Fleur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #273 | 19,591 | 1 in 882 | 20K | Fleur | 111 |
| DZ Algeria | #267 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Fleur | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Fleur | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 5.7K | — | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | #759 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Fleur | 7 |
| TN Tunisia | #815 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Fleur | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 111 | Fleur | 48 |
19,591 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fleur Mellorb. 1936AUAustralian sprinter
- Fleur Jaeggyb. 1940CHSwiss writer
- Ewine van Dishoeckb. 1955NLnot in their usual nameDutch astronomer and chemist
- Fleur van der Weelb. 1970NLDutch illustrator (born 1970)
- Fleur Albertb. 1972FRFrench film director
- Fleur Pellerinb. 1973FRFrench politician
- Fleur Agemab. 1976NLDutch politician (born 1976)
- Fleur Geffrierb. 1986FRFrench actress
- Fleur Eastb. 1987GBBritish singer
- Fleur Catesfosta soție a lui Benjamin Netanyahu din 1981 până în 1988
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 63 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20K | #110 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16K | #246 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.7K | #576 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 454 | #14 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 111 | #68 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 12 | #15,999 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Fleur?
- A machine transcription gives /flœʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Fleur have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Fleur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fleur.
- Where is Fleur most common?
- Fleur is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 882 people carrying it.
- What does the name Fleur mean, and where does it come from?
- flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants") Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Fleur a male or female name?
- Fleur 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.
- How common is the name Fleur?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 19,591 people named Fleur, about 1 in 882 residents.
- How common is Fleur compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Fleur is the 273rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Fleur?
- In the etymology graph, Flor, Flora and Fiorella are forms of the same name in other languages; Fleurette is a recorded short or pet form.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fleurThe 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, “Fleur” — the 273rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.