Anemone

Anemone is a floral name that relates to the ancient Greek myth of the famous love story of Aphrodite and Adonis, in which Aphrodite transforms her wounded lover's blood into a flower, the crimson anemone, whose blossoms are opened by the wind — accounting for its other name, windflower.

This makes an interesting, if challenging, choice for someone seeing an unusual flower name.

Pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee.

As of October 2026, Anemone ranked #15359 in US births in 2023 SSA, peaked at #15119 in 2012.