Florida
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the name of the U.S
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Florida is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 179K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 65Kas Флорида
- ALAlbania1 in 3.5K
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 Florida 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Флорида, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Флорида in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan.
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 the name of the U.S. state, originally so named in Spanish because of its lush vegetation (from Latin floridus ‘flowery’}. It may also in part have originated as an elaboration of dFlora or more modern form of Florence.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Florida 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 65K | #872 | Флорида | 112 |
| US United States | 1,856 | 1 in 179K | 1.8K | Florida | 191 |
| AL Albania | 889 | 1 in 3.5K | 889 | — | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Флорида | 4 |
| EG Egypt | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Florida | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 242 | 1 in 71K | 242 | — | 9 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 385 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | 67as Флорида | 1 in 32K | 67 | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Florida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pi. name, S America; mtns., NM
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, state, US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, weibl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs (lat.flöridus, -a, -um »blühend, blumenreich«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Spanish, Feminine of Lat. floridus 'flowered, flourishing'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Catalan, Florida (a state of the United States)
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)
- Florida Cevolib. 1685IT18th-century Italian Catholic abbess
- Florida Ruffin Ridleyb. 1861USAmerican civil rights activist, teacher, editor and writer
- Florida Scott-Maxwellb. 1883USAmerican writer (1883-1979)
- Florida M. Bautistab. 1901PHFilipino film director
- Florida Friebusb. 1909USactress, screenwriter (1909-1988)
- Richard Floridab. 1957USAmerican urban studies theorist
- Florida Chanturiyab. 1990RURussian singer
- Rana FloridaUSbusinesswoman
- Florida CiutăRORomanian canoeist
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 63 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,949 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 889 | #552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 812 | #30,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 742 | #31,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 724 | #30,443 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 385 | #1,384 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 242 | #3,200 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 111 | #7,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #7,949 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 1 | — |
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
- Where does the name Florida come from?
- From the name of the U.S. state, originally so named in Spanish because of its lush vegetation (from Latin floridus ‘flowery’}. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Florida mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the name of the U.S.
- In which country does Florida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Флорида in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Florida most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Florida is densest in Albania — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Florida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,856 people named Florida in 2020, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Florida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/floridaThe 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, “Florida”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.