Fleur
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fleur is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants").
- NLNetherlands1 in 883◐
- BEBelgium1 in 3.1K
- DZAlgeria1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 212 ●
- 1 in 883 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
41K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #225 | 19,579△ | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 883 | 20K | Fleur | 88 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,637 | 6.3K rec. | — | 4 | Fleur | 146 |
| FR France | — | 5,695△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.7K | — | 6 |
| BE Belgium | #375 | 4,923 | 908 rec. | — | 111 | Fleur | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,654 | 2.9K rec. | — | 3 | Fleur | 132 |
| DZ Algeria | #287 | 1,631 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Fleur | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 667 | 841 rec. | — | 1 | Fleur | 72 |
| MA Morocco | — | 642 | 4.5K rec. | — | — | Fleur | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | 581 | 464 rec. | — | — | Fleur | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | #515 | 550 | 425 rec. | — | 15 | Fleur | 72 |
| US United States | — | 473 | 11K rec. | 1 in 703K | 473 | Fleur | 212 |
| CA Canada | — | 284 | 377 rec. | — | 1 | Fleur | 49 |
Roughly 20K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 883). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French37K25%
- English37K25%
- Western Frisian35K23%
- Dutch28K19%
- German1.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 37,453 | 25% |
| English | 37,224 | 25% |
| Western Frisian | 35,434 | 23% |
| Dutch | 28,029 | 19% |
| German | 1,563 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fleur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du latin flos/floris « fleur »; forme francisée de Flore.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Nom commun « fleur », symbole de beauté et de pureté.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du français fleur; prénom d’inspiration naturelle.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, French word name meaning ‘flower’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Old French; a flower; see Flora
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1968 | 42 |
| 1969 | 55 |
| 1970 | 37 |
| 1971 | 28 |
| 1972 | 51 |
| 1973 | 47 |
| 1974 | 53 |
| 1975 | 40 |
| 1976 | 31 |
| 1977 | 34 |
| 1978 | 48 |
| 1979 | 31 |
| 1980 | 28 |
| 1981 | 25 |
| 1982 | 22 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 16 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 15 |
NZ DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) — 33 years between 1964–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Fleur Mellorb. 1936AUAustralian sprinter
- Fleur Jaeggyb. 1940CHSwiss writer
- Ewine van Dishoeckb. 1955NLnot in their usual nameDutch astronomer and chemist
- Fleur van der Weelb. 1970NLDutch illustrator (born 1970)
- Fleur Albertb. 1972FRFrench film director
- Fleur Pellerinb. 1973FRFrench politician
- Fleur Agemab. 1976NLDutch politician (born 1976)
- Fleur Geffrierb. 1986FRFrench actress
- Fleur Eastb. 1987GBBritish singer
- Fleur Catesfosta soție a lui Benjamin Netanyahu din 1981 până în 1988
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 63 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 317 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fleur?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Fleur (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fleur have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Fleur in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fleur.
- Where is Fleur most common?
- Fleur is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 883 people carrying it.
- How common is Fleur compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Fleur is the 225th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Fleur a male or female name?
- Fleur is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Fleur mean?
- Recorded meaning: flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fleur” — the 225th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.