Given name & surname
Florin
Florin is a masculine given name. It is used in Romanian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Florin isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Florin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 57 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,638 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,638 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,288 as a first name in 2020; 718 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.
Florin’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Florin shares a linguistic root with the French form FLORINE. In English usage, Florin has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form FLORYN. In Russian usage, Florin as a surname is a transliteration of Флорин.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Florin has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
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 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Florin
- Florin Cîțu69th Prime Minister of Romania (2020-2021)born 1972
- Florin RăducioiuRomanian footballerborn 1970
- Florin AndoneRomanian footballerborn 1993
- Florin NițăRomanian association football playerborn 1987
- Florin Cezar OuatuRomanian opera countertenor, singer and pianistborn 1980
- Florin MergeaRomanian tennis playerborn 1985
- Florin GardoșRomanian association football playerborn 1988
- Florin PruneaRomanian footballerborn 1968
- Florin TănaseRomanian association football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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