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)
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
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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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