Flora
Top 1000
About Flora
Flora, the name of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, who enjoyed eternal youth, is one of the gently old-fashioned girls' flower names that's making a big comeback. Short and sweet, it joins Cora, Florence, Iris, and Ivy in the charts.
Also the name of a saint, Flora has long been a favorite in Scotland where it was the name of the young heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie make his way to the Isle of Skye. In Gaelic, her name was Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill, but the Anglicized Flora caught on with the Scots, who used it disproportionately compared to the rest of the UK until the 20th century.
Flora was a Top 100 name in the 1880s and 1890s but gradually descended until it finally fell off the list in 1972, but 2019 saw it return to the US charts in a big way. Now in the Top 700, it was given to 450 girls in recent year. Across the pond in Europe, it's even more popular: it ranks in the Top 300 in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and England and Wales, while in Hungary and Austria, it makes the Top 50.
There have been a number of memorable Floras in literature, including the angelic yet eerie little girl in Henry James's Turn of the Screw, the exasperating but charming Flora Poste in Stella Gibson's Cold Comfort Farm, Flora MacIvor in Walter Scott's Waverly, and one of the three Good Fairies in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Flora is also the name of the eighth child and fifth daughter of Ballerina Farm Instastar Hannah Neeleman.
Variations of the lovely Flora include the Italian Fiorella and Fiore, Spanish and Portuguese Florinda, Dutch Floor and Flortje, French Fleur, and English Floretta, Floy, and Flower.
Pronounced FLOR-uh.
As of October 2026, Flora ranked #607 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #68 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #133.
Editor's take: The name Flora is a girl's name of Scottish, Latin origin meaning "flower".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,367 | 170 | 95.2 |
| 2015 | #1,338 | 177 | 99.2 |
| 2016 | #1,253 | 195 | 110 |
| 2017 | #1,118 | 226 | 130.9 |
| 2018 | #1,051 | 244 | 143.4 |
| 2019 | #943 | 280 | 166.8 |
| 2020 | #925 | 279 | 172.6 |
| 2021 | #648 | 460 | 280.3 |
| 2022 | #725 | 402 | 245.1 |
| 2023 | #682 | 427 | 266.1 |
| 2024 | #648 | 452 | 279 |
| 2025 | #607 | 483 | 300.5 |
World rankings
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Flora on lists
Famous Floras
- Flora McKenzie Robson
English actress
- Flora Payne Whitney
American socialite; member of the Vanderbilt family
- Flora Call Disney
mother of Walt Disney
- Flora May Augusta Flannagan
birth name of Florrie Forde, Australian pop singer
- Flora Zuzori
Ragusan (Croatian) poet
- Flora Purim
Brazilian jazz singer
- Flora Macdonald Reid
British painter
- Flora Anne Selina Montgomery
Northern Irish actress
- Flora Carabella
Italian actress
- Flora Coquerel
Miss France Universe 2015
- Flora Chan (Wai
shan), Hong Kong actress
- Flora Keays (b. 1993)
daughter of British politician Cecil Parkinson
- Flora Nolan (b. 2001)
daughter of director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas
- Flora Solano (b. 2010)
daughter of actor Mateus Solano
- Flora Jibson (b. 2012)
daughter of actors Michael Jibson and Caroline Sheen
- Flora Oosterhouse (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Amy Smart and Carter Oosterhouse
Flora in pop culture
- Flora Poste
main character in Stella Gibsons's "Cold Comfort Farm"
- Flora
character in "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
- Flora
a member of "Winx Club"
- Flora
one of the three Good Fairies in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"
- Flora
brand of margarine/spread in the UK
- Flora Gilchrist
character in the movie "St Ives"
- Flora Wentworth
one of the 12 sisters in the book "Entwined" by Heather Dixon
- Flora MacIvor
character in Walter Scott's 1814 novel "Waverley"
- Flora Northrop
character in the "Main Street" series by Ann M. Martin
- Flora Finching
character in "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens
- Flora Reinhold
character in Professor Layton video game
- Flora Habstat
character in The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
- Flora
character from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"
- Flora Buckman
Main character of "Flora And Ulysses" by Kate DiCamillo