Flora Forename
1,373rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 703,618 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Central African Republic
Flora Forename Definition:
A female name. the name of the Roman goddess of flowers, which was adopted as a christian name in France (Flore) at the Renaissance, and carried thence to Scotland where it has been used ever since. Flora Macdonald, the Jacobite heroine, no doubt increased its popularity, and it is now often used in England, where it was formerly considered a suitable name for a spaniel but not for a woman.
Read More About This ForenameFlora Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 100% | 108,105 | 1:488 | 81 |
| Philippines | 99% | 61,645 | 1:1,720 | 361 |
| Mexico | 100% | 54,561 | 1:2,275 | 352 |
| United States | 100% | 50,327 | 1:7,204 | 885 |
| Peru | 100% | 32,063 | 1:992 | 200 |
| Malawi | 100% | 26,758 | 1:640 | 139 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 23,757 | 1:446 | 91 |
| Angola | 100% | 20,649 | 1:1,306 | 265 |
| Italy | 100% | 20,358 | 1:2,999 | 346 |
| Uganda | 100% | 16,924 | 1:2,420 | 347 |
| Brazil | 100% | 13,265 | 1:16,150 | 1,581 |
| Mozambique | - | 12,480 | 1:2,183 | 479 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 12,417 | 1:14,300 | 1,663 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 12,204 | 1:946 | 238 |
| Central African Republic | - | 10,376 | 1:435 | 180 |
| Sudan | 100% | 10,312 | 1:3,666 | 607 |
| South Africa | 100% | 9,447 | 1:5,772 | 1,093 |
| Argentina | 100% | 9,179 | 1:4,660 | 444 |
| Kenya | 100% | 8,139 | 1:5,690 | 871 |
| Spain | 100% | 7,971 | 1:5,837 | 538 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 7,877 | 1:32,749 | 4,355 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 7,493 | 1:1,518 | 320 |
| Burundi | 100% | 7,241 | 1:1,368 | 438 |
| Ecuador | - | 7,117 | 1:2,491 | 382 |
| Greece | 100% | 6,202 | 1:1,763 | 202 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 5,879 | 1:2,740 | 431 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 5,717 | 1:834 | 180 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 5,626 | 1:2,742 | 493 |
| Colombia | 100% | 5,605 | 1:8,524 | 821 |
| France | 100% | 5,537 | 1:12,005 | 712 |
| DR Congo | 91% | 4,787 | 1:15,423 | 1,382 |
| Cuba | - | 4,732 | 1:2,432 | 366 |
| Albania | 100% | 4,706 | 1:647 | 82 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 4,326 | 1:7,039 | 811 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 4,224 | 1:1,425 | 277 |
| England | 100% | 4,120 | 1:13,496 | 976 |
| Canada | 100% | 4,111 | 1:8,060 | 1,029 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 3,717 | 1:2,594 | 534 |
| Chile | 100% | 3,615 | 1:4,871 | 501 |
| India | 100% | 3,577 | 1:339,636 | 30,497 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 3,574 | 1:44,617 | 3,971 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 3,555 | 1:2,036 | 434 |
| Ghana | 100% | 3,484 | 1:7,746 | 812 |
| Zambia | - | 3,278 | 1:4,837 | 682 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 3,236 | 1:9,333 | 1,024 |
| Chad | 92% | 3,213 | 1:4,232 | 638 |
| Iran | 100% | 2,967 | 1:26,457 | 1,305 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2,675 | 1:1,091 | 231 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2,555 | 1:8,458 | 1,088 |
| Congo | 100% | 2,448 | 1:2,046 | 325 |
| Honduras | 100% | 2,401 | 1:3,672 | 547 |
| Russia | 99% | 2,320 | 1:62,170 | 1,377 |
| Scotland | 100% | 2,320 | 1:2,306 | 319 |
| Ivory Coast | 99% | 2,137 | 1:10,798 | 1,140 |
| Gabon | - | 2,085 | 1:903 | 194 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 2,029 | 1:4,018 | 424 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,946 | 1:5,360 | 773 |
| Benin | 100% | 1,894 | 1:5,584 | 915 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1,844 | 1:16,695 | 1,602 |
| China | - | 1,823 | 1:749,345 | 30,754 |
| Portugal | - | 1,623 | 1:6,415 | 469 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,266 | 1:76,365 | 1,797 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,122 | 1:10,241 | 1,091 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,111 | 1:15,213 | 1,609 |
| Togo | - | 1,071 | 1:6,759 | 1,050 |
| Egypt | 95% | 1,041 | 1:88,281 | 4,164 |
| Panama | 100% | 1,022 | 1:3,822 | 706 |
| El Salvador | - | 988 | 1:6,419 | 590 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 874 | 1:35,255 | 4,434 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 731 | 1:62,243 | 653 |
| Austria | 100% | 633 | 1:13,451 | 734 |
| Kosovo | - | 626 | 1:2,974 | 626 |
| Hong Kong | - | 609 | 1:12,730 | 1,204 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 600 | 1:1,452 | 224 |
| Morocco | - | 573 | 1:59,945 | 2,327 |
| Burkina Faso | 99% | 545 | 1:33,724 | 2,632 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 494 | 1:6,939 | 596 |
| Australia | - | 484 | 1:28,218 | 1,734 |
| Namibia | - | 463 | 1:5,193 | 753 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 458 | 1:17,933 | 1,341 |
| Iraq | 100% | 410 | 1:85,409 | 2,250 |
| Poland | 98% | 377 | 1:100,868 | 2,190 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 358 | 1:58,098 | 5,853 |
| Fiji | - | 345 | 1:2,587 | 730 |
| Vanuatu | - | 345 | 1:759 | 206 |
| Mali | 100% | 276 | 1:61,514 | 3,059 |
| New Zealand | - | 253 | 1:17,929 | 1,479 |
| Thailand | 100% | 248 | 1:282,523 | 16,362 |
| Sweden | 100% | 240 | 1:41,075 | 2,301 |
| Bulgaria | 99% | 232 | 1:30,131 | 1,909 |
| Kazakhstan | 96% | 208 | 1:85,321 | 2,770 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 192 | 1:7,091 | 1,143 |
| Afghanistan | 99% | 184 | 1:177,302 | 4,755 |
| Jamaica | - | 179 | 1:16,107 | 1,492 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| Hungary | 100% | 163 | 1:60,072 | 589 |
| Qatar | 100% | 161 | 1:14,718 | 2,295 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 161 | 1:3,608 | 514 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 160 | 1:148,561 | 15,046 |
| Ireland | 99% | 156 | 1:29,766 | 1,215 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 98% | 155 | 1:38,537 | 3,820 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 150 | 1:1,185 | 191 |
| Singapore | 100% | 142 | 1:44,275 | 6,632 |
| Belize | 100% | 140 | 1:2,531 | 578 |
| Lesotho | 98% | 133 | 1:15,338 | 2,049 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 112 | 1:50,246 | 2,365 |
| Wales | 100% | 105 | 1:29,470 | 1,349 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 104 | 1:1,868,824 | 26,236 |
| French Polynesia | - | 103 | 1:2,698 | 564 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 103 | 1:23,871 | 1,407 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 97 | 1:36,601 | 1,202 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 90 | 1:1,030 | 246 |
| Serbia | 100% | 80 | 1:89,322 | 2,630 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 77 | 1:27,153 | 2,488 |
| Romania | 100% | 72 | 1:278,500 | 8,824 |
| Kuwait | - | 66 | 1:57,352 | 4,703 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 65 | 1:28,356 | 1,069 |
| Bahamas | - | 65 | 1:6,144 | 853 |
| Belarus | 96% | 65 | 1:145,883 | 1,391 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 64 | 1:8,813 | 756 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 60 | 1:91,214 | 1,049 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Norway | 100% | 59 | 1:86,989 | 2,968 |
| Senegal | 100% | 59 | 1:247,142 | 4,529 |
| Botswana | 100% | 58 | 1:37,663 | 3,938 |
| Denmark | - | 58 | 1:97,405 | 2,836 |
| Guam | - | 56 | 1:2,869 | 587 |
| Guyana | 100% | 54 | 1:14,134 | 1,933 |
| Micronesia | - | 54 | 1:1,972 | 300 |
| Aruba | - | 50 | 1:2,076 | 432 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 48 | 1:5,628 | 744 |
| Algeria | 100% | 39 | 1:978,890 | 5,534 |
| South Korea | - | 39 | 1:142,165 | 6,254 |
| Turkey | 100% | 39 | 1:1,994,916 | 14,199 |
| Haiti | 100% | 38 | 1:282,288 | 11,559 |
| Madagascar | - | 36 | 1:656,372 | 1,939 |
| Finland | 100% | 35 | 1:156,662 | 2,989 |
| Jordan | 100% | 35 | 1:252,194 | 2,919 |
| Latvia | 94% | 35 | 1:57,590 | 1,473 |
| Yemen | - | 35 | 1:751,336 | 2,797 |
| Cape Verde | - | 33 | 1:16,035 | 1,344 |
| Czechia | 96% | 30 | 1:355,205 | 2,142 |
| Estonia | 100% | 29 | 1:45,358 | 2,735 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 29 | 1:1,767 | 266 |
| Moldova | 100% | 29 | 1:122,798 | 1,383 |
| Palestine | 100% | 27 | 1:168,521 | 2,241 |
| Croatia | 100% | 26 | 1:162,195 | 3,156 |
| Macau | - | 26 | 1:23,393 | 397 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 24 | 1:4,573 | 777 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 23 | 1:2,377 | 477 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 21 | 1:340,571 | 16,465 |
| Grenada | 100% | 18 | 1:6,007 | 933 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 16 | 1:3,831 | 730 |
| Barbados | - | 15 | 1:19,319 | 1,454 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 15 | 1:354,004 | 1,850 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 12 | 1:8,283 | 1,404 |
| Japan | - | 12 | 1:10,665,505 | 35,725 |
| Vietnam | - | 12 | 1:7,718,593 | 3,884 |
| Jersey | - | 11 | 1:9,089 | 812 |
| Monaco | 100% | 11 | 1:3,497 | 622 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 9 | 1:126,410 | 509 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 9 | 1:12,398 | 1,723 |
| Syria | - | 9 | 1:2,145,119 | 4,120 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 8 | 1:24,000 | 1,933 |
| Israel | 100% | 7 | 1:1,200,417 | 15,461 |
| Liberia | 100% | 7 | 1:630,294 | 15,835 |
| Dominica | - | 6 | 1:12,578 | 436 |
| Georgia | 100% | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 6 | 1:9,144 | 1,176 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Mauritius | - | 5 | 1:259,557 | 4,811 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 4 | 1:60,856 | 1,852 |
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,949 | 87 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 3 | 1:158,546 | 1,411 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:24,564 | 1,836 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Niger | - | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
The alternate forms: Flóra (2,247) are calculated separately.
Flora (41,236) may also be a surname.
Flora Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. the name of the Roman goddess of flowers, which was adopted as a christian name in France (Flore) at the Renaissance, and carried thence to Scotland where it has been used ever since. Flora Macdonald, the Jacobite heroine, no doubt increased its popularity, and it is now often used in England, where it was formerly considered a suitable name for a spaniel but not for a woman. In the 13th and 14th C there are a few records of a name Floria, presumably the f. of the Latin Florius ‘of Flora’.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
This f. name owes its popularity to Flora (L. flos, ‘a flower’), ‘the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, whose annual festival (Floralia) was celebrated from the 28th of April till the 3rd of May, with extravagant merriment and lasciviousness’ (Blakeney).
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A female name derived from Flora, goddess of flowers and gardens, the same as the Chloris of the Greeks.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Latin (feminine) - Flower, fig. beauty.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Latin name, meaning: A flower: in classic mythology the goddess of flowers.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Flora Forename Popularity
Flora Demographics
Flora Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 97 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Flora Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Flora in the Russian language | ||
| Флора | flora | - |
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