Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Florina 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 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Florina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 442
- 0 boys · 442 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,682 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,682 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,624 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.
Florina’s family of names
In German usage, Florina is a diminutive of 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 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Florina
- Florina IlisRomanian writerborn 1968
- Florina PierdevarăRomanian athleteborn 1990
- Florina ChintoanRomanian handball playerborn 1985
- Florina CercelRomanian actor1943–2019
- Florina Sorina HulpanRomanian weightlifterborn 1997
- Florina PașcalăuRomanian basketball player (born 1982)
- Florina AlíasSpanish writer (1921-1999)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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If you love Florina, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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