Given name & surname
Floy
“a flourishing woman; a blooming flower”
In English use, Floy is a diminutive of Florence. One Latin interpretation is “a flourishing woman; a blooming flower.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Floy is a diminutive of Florence. One Latin interpretation is “a flourishing woman; a blooming flower.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Floy is a diminutive of Florence. An origin associated with Florence is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Floy is a diminutive of Florence.
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. Floy 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
Floy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,935
- 323 boys · 6,612 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 241 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 5% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 225 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,200 as a first name in 2020; 188 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.
Floy’s family of names
In English usage, Floy is a diminutive of Florence. Floy has a related form in Flora. In English usage, Floy has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Флой.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Floy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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