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🔥Flora

Latin
"flower"
Clare Green
By Clare Green
Updated Tue Sep 30 2025

Flora Origin and Meaning

The name Flora is a girl's name of Scottish, Latin origin meaning "flower".

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.

# 648 in the US

Flora Rank in US Top 1000

# 126 on Nameberry

Flora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Flora

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Famous People Named Flora

  • 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

The name 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"

International Variations of the name Flora

  • Flore
    French
  • Florida
    Spanish
  • Floraigh
    Gaelic
  • Fleur
    French
  • Florita
    Spanish
  • Flor
    Spanish
  • Fleurette
    French
  • Florinda
    Spanish
  • Florka
    Hungarian
  • Floridita
    Spanish

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