Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Floretta is a variant of 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 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Floretta is a variant of 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
Floretta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,071
- 0 boys · 2,071 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 51 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 9 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 51 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 854 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Floretta’s family of names
Floretta has a related form in Flora.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Floretta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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