Given name & surname
Flore
“goddess of vegetation”
Flore is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Flore goes back to Latin Flora, meaning “goddess of vegetation.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In French use, Flore has a related form in Flora. An origin associated with Flora is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In French use, Flore has a related form in Flora. The history of Flora gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Flora is associated with the goddess of flowers.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Flore through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 58
- 0 boys · 58 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 455 as a first name in 2020; 598 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Flore’s family of names
In German usage, Flore has a related form in Flora. In French usage, Flore has a conventional equivalent in the English form Flora. In French usage, Flore has a conventional equivalent in the Breton form Bleuzvenn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Flore has relatives in 10 languages.
7 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Florequivalent
- FioraItalian
- Fleurequivalent
- Flooraequivalent
- KvětaCzech
- FlóraCzech
- CvetaSlovene
- Фло́раRussian
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People named Flore
- Flore HazouméCongolese writerborn 1959
- Flore BonaventuraFrench actressborn 1988
- Flore VasseurFrench film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, entrepreneur and journalistborn 1973
- FloreFrench-Spanish photographer (born 1963)
- Flore GravesteijnDutch volleyball playerborn 1987
- Flore Vandenhouckebadminton playerborn 1995
- Marie LemoineFrench botanist (1887–1986)
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