Flossie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form from a contraction of }Florence, common in the roth century, but no longer much used
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flɒsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flossie is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form from a contraction of }Florence, common in the roth century, but no longer much used. The popularity of the name was perhaps enhanced by association with the soft downy material known as floss.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Flossie 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, A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: pet form from a contraction of FLORENCE , common in the 19th century, but now no longer much used. The popularity of the name was no doubt enhanced by association with the soft downy material known as floss .
as a word
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)
- Ivy de Verleyb. 1879GBnot in their usual nameJamaican-born painter (1879–1963)
- Flossie Wong-Staalb. 1947USAmerican virologist
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,438 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 613 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 582 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 574 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 564 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 548 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 544 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1914 | 538 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 534 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 505 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 478 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 467 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Flossie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form from a contraction of }Florence, common in the roth century, but no longer much used. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Flossie a male or female name?
- Flossie 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 are other forms of the name Flossie?
- In the etymology graph, Florencia, Flor and Flo are forms of the same name in other languages; Floella is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Flossie?
- A machine transcription gives /flɒsi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Flossie have the most bearers?
- Flossie is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Flossie?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flossieThe 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, “Flossie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.