Given name & surname

Flores

“flowers”

Flores is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Aklanon, and 2 other languages.

Original SpanishFlórez

Meaning & origin

What it means

Flores goes back to Spanish Flores, meaning “flowers.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Flores comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Flores.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Flores through the years

Babies since 1880
30
19 boys · 11 girls
Most popular year
1986
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
0246192019401960198020002025Highest share 1916Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Flores in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1916–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 670 as a first name in 2020; 426,965 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.

Flores’s family of names

In English usage, Flores as a surname has a related form in FLOREZ. In Spanish usage, Flores as a surname has a related form in Flórez.

Walk Flores’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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Sibling ideas

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