Flora is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “flower and bloom, flower.” In 2024 it was given to 452 girls in the United States.
Flora at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“flower and bloom, flower”
Pronunciation
/ˈflɔːɹə/
Also spelled
Florus, Florrie
About the name Flora
Flora belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “flower and bloom, flower” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Florus, Florrie.
In the United States, Flora first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #68 in 1880, and in 2024 452 babies received the name — 70,483 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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