Florian
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Latin Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flɔʁjɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Florian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 558(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 660
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 271 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
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)
From Latin Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Florian is read(measured from records)
Florian 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.
- French52%
- German37%
from Latin Florianus, from flos 'flower'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from the personal name Florian; here used as a field/farm name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Florian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #94 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 558 | 128K | Florian | 417 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | 33K | — | 1 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 54K | Florian | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | #345 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | 84 | Florian | 101 |
| TZ Tanzania | #753 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Florian | 19 |
| BE Belgium | #371 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 16 | Florian | 97 |
| PL Poland | — | 6,300 | 1 in 6.1K | 6.3K | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Florian is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Latin; a flower, blooming; masculine form of Flora
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
$ From Latin Floridnus ‘flowery’. St Florian is the patron saint of Upper Austria and of Poland.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Florian Znanieckib. 1882PLPolish sociologist (1882–1958)
- Gregor Gysib. 1948DEnot in their usual nameGerman lawyer and left-wing politician
- Hans Zimmerb. 1957DEnot in their usual nameGerman film composer (born 1957)
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarckb. 1973DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Florian Lukasb. 1973DEGerman actor
- Florian Zellerb. 1979FRFrench novelist, playwright
- Florian Kohfeldtb. 1982DEGerman football manager
- Florian Munteanub. 1990DEGerman actor
- Florian Thauvinb. 1993FRFrench footballer (born 1993)
- Florian Wirtzb. 2003DEGerman association football player (born 2003)
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 109 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 128K | #873 |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2019 | 54K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2019 | 54K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 33K | #30 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 6.3K | #214 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5.9K | #215 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 399 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 259 | #30 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Florian mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Florian a male or female name?
- Florian 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.
- In which country does Florian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Florian in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled florian.
- How do you pronounce Florian?
- A machine transcription gives /flɔʁjɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Florian?
- In the etymology graph, Florent, Flore and Floriano are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Florian?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,300 people named Florian in 2026, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Florian compared with other names?
- In France, Florian is the 94th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Florian?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/florianThe 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, “Florian” — the 94th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.