Given name & surname
Florida
“flowery”
Florida is a surname from Spanish (ultimately Latin). It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Florida goes back to Spanish florida, meaning “flowery.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Florida is a variant of Flora. An origin associated with Flora is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Spanish florida (“flowery”), from Latin floridus, from Latin flōridus (“flowery”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Florida 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
Florida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,532
- 5 boys · 3,527 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 99 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 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 99 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,856 as a first name in 2020; 812 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.
Florida’s family of names
Florida has a related form in Flora.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Florida
- Florida Cevoli18th-century Italian Catholic abbess1685–1767
- Florida Friebusactress, screenwriter (1909-1988)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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