Florentina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: feminine singular of florentino
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/floɾentina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Florentina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 488(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.3K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.8K
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
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 488 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
feminine singular of florentino
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Florentina is read(measured from records)
Florentina is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish64%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Florentina in Spanish.
- English10.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Florentina in English.
- Portuguese7.4%
feminine singular of florentino
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Romanian5.2%
definite nominative feminine singular of florentin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Florentina 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 | #94 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 488 | — | Florentina | 117 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Florentina | 40 |
| ES Spain | #510 | 9,867 | 1 in 5.1K | 11K | Florentina | 96 |
| PE Peru | #611 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Florentina | 31 |
| AR Argentina | #644 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 11 | Florentina | 49 |
| PY Paraguay | #379 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Florentina | 17 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 3.4K | Florentina | 5 |
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: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Florentina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Florence.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Latin: feminine form of Florent nus , an elaborated form of Florens (see FLORENCE ). The name was borne by a 7th-century Spanish saint, sister of the other saints Fulgentius, Isidore, and Leander. Cognate: Polish: Florentyna .
as a word
In German, a female given name, masculine equivalent Florentin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of florentín
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)
- Florentinab. 501ESChristian female saint
- Florentina Malláb. 1891CZCzech musician (1891-1973)
- Florentina Gómez Mirandab. 1912ARArgentine politician (1912-2011)
- Florentina Mosorab. 1940RORomanian biophysicist
- Florentina Petreb. 1983RObadminton player
- Caitlynb. 1988ROnot in their usual nameRomanian musician
- Bianca Perieb. 1990ROnot in their usual nameRomanian hammer thrower
- Florentina Iuscob. 1996RORomanian athlete and bobsledder
- Florentina Oneafilm producer
- Florentina Vela PrietoESSpanish politician
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 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #259 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.9K | #552 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 3.4K | #165 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 9 | #2,169 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
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 Florentina mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of florentino Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Florentina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Florentina in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled florentina.
- Is Florentina a male or female name?
- Florentina 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 do you pronounce Florentina?
- A machine transcription gives /floɾentina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Florentina?
- In the etymology graph, Florentine is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Florentina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,867 people named Florentina, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Florentina compared with other names?
- In Romania, Florentina is the 94th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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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, “Florentina” — the 94th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.