Given name & surname
Florie
Florie is a masculine given name. It is used in East Central German.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In East Central German usage, Florie is a diminutive of Florian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1886. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Florie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 834
- 0 boys · 834 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 25 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 1967. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 402 as a first name in 2020; 204 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.
Florie’s family of names
In East Central German usage, Florie is a diminutive of Florian.
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.
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