Flora
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Latin; flower; after the Roman goddess of flowers
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flɔːɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- 1 in 788 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin floris/flos, ‘flower’; used to translate Irish Biath and Finola.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Flora is read(measured from records)
Flora 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.
- English40%
Latin; flower; after the Roman goddess of flowers
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Flora in Spanish.
- French7.7%
Du latin flora « fleur »; déesse romaine des fleurs.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Flora 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Flora | 72 |
| US United States | — | 26,834 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Flora | 271 |
| PE Peru | #306 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Flora | 51 |
| IT Italy | #834 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 126 | Flora | 117 |
| FR France | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 22K | — | 4 |
| HU Hungary | — | 12,393 | 1 in 788 | 12K | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,522 | 1 in 873 | 3.5K | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | #117 | 2,826 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | Flora | 32 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Flora 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 Latin, Latin floris/flos, ‘flower’; used to translate Irish Biath and Finola.
as a nameIrish first names
In Portuguese, flora (plants of a region considered as a group)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome latino Flora; deusa da vegetação, flores e primavera
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Flora MacDonaldb. 1722GBBritish patriot (1722-1790)
- Maria Amalia of Saxonyb. 1724ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
- Flora Tristanb. 1803FRFrench writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
- Flora Shawb. 1852GBEnglish journalist and writer, editor (1852-1929)
- Flora Finchb. 1867GBBritish-born film actress (1867-1940)
- Flora Robsonb. 1902GBEnglish actress (1902-1984)
- Flóra Kádárb. 1928HUHungarian actress
- Alejandra Pizarnikb. 1936ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian poet (1936-1972)
- Mary Bellb. 1957GBnot in their usual nameEnglish killer (born 1957)
- Flora Montgomeryb. 1974GBNorthern Irish actress
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 130 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27K | #1,342 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 22K | #219 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.5K | #69 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.8K | #271 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 483 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 126 | #181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 50 | #1,342 |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Flora come from?
- Latin floris/flos, ‘flower’; used to translate Irish Biath and Finola. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Flora a male or female name?
- Flora 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.
- What does the name Flora mean?
- In English, Latin; flower; after the Roman goddess of flowers
- What are other forms of the name Flora?
- In the etymology graph, Flor, Fiorella and Florinda are forms of the same name in other languages; Flo and Florrie are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Flora have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Flora in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flora.
- Where is Flora most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Flora is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 788 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Flora?
- A machine transcription gives /flɔːɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Flora?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,834 people named Flora in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Flora compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Flora is the 117th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/floraThe 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, “Flora” — the 117th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.