Given name
Florinda
Florinda is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Florinda 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 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Florinda 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
Florinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,865
- 0 boys · 1,865 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,774 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,774 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,896 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.
Florinda’s family of names
Florinda has a related form in Flora. In Spanish usage, Florinda has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Flora. In Spanish usage, Florinda has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Floriana.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 Florinda
- Florinda BolkanBrazilian actress (born 1941)
- Florinda ChicoSpanish actress (1926–2011)
- Florinda MezaMexican actress, screenwriter, writer, director, producer, singer and broadcaster (born 1949)
- Florinda DonnerAmerican writer and anthropologistborn 1944
- Mamá TingóDominican activist leader1921–1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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