Flore
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Flore is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Flora, Roman goddess name related to flos ‘flower’.
- CMCameroon1 in 767◐
- FRFrance1 in 5.5K
- BEBelgium1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 275 ●
- 1 in 5.5K ◐
across 10 countries
46K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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●
From Latin Flora, Roman goddess name related to flos ‘flower’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #756 | 12,330 | 34K rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 12K | Flore | 275 |
| CM Cameroon | #25 | 2,542 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Flore | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,567 | 1.7K rec. | — | 262 | Flore | 64 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 910△ | 54 rec. | 1 in 19K | 910 | — | 24 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #148 | 452 | 443 rec. | — | 2 | Flore | 13 |
| US United States | — | 433 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 768K | 719 | Flore | 108 |
| ES Spain | — | 356 | 448 rec. | — | 111 | Flore | 18 |
| MQ Martinique | #490 | 260 | 5 rec. | — | 5 | Flore | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | 256 | 268 rec. | — | — | Flore | 13 |
| GA Gabon | #202 | 199 | 49 rec. | — | 108 | Flore | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 194 | 234 rec. | — | 14 | Flore | 30 |
| AL Albania | — | 105 | — | 1 in 29K | 105 | — | — |
Roughly 12K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 5.5K). 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●
- French81K74%
- Spanish8.4K8%
- English6.3K6%
- Dutch3.1K3%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2.5K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 80,504 | 74% |
| Spanish | 8,434 | 8% |
| English | 6,270 | 6% |
| Dutch | 3,108 | 3% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 2,457 | 2% |
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●
Flore 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, flora (plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du latin flos/floris « fleur »; nom de la déesse romaine des fleurs et des jardins.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin flos, floris « fleur »; fête de sainte Flore le 24 novembre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Flora, déesse des fleurs; fêtée le 24 mai.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Italian, var. de Fiore
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 |
|---|---|
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 15 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 43 years between 1906–1993. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Flore Singerb. 1824FRFrench writer and salon-holder
- Harlette Hayemb. 1881FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet (1881-1958)
- Marie Lemoineb. 1887FRnot in their usual nameFrench botanist (1887–1986)
- Flore Revallesb. 1889CHSwiss actress and singer (1889-1966)
- Flore Hazouméb. 1959CGCongolese writer
- Floreb. 1963FRFrench-Spanish photographer (born 1963)
- Annie-Flore Batchiellilysb. 1967GAGabonese musician
- Flore Vasseurb. 1973FRFrench film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, entrepreneur and journalist
- Flore Bonaventurab. 1988FRFrench actress
- Flore Vandenhouckeb. 1995BEbadminton player
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 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #549 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 910 | #1,364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 719 | #30,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 598 | #39,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 433 | #22,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 415 | #50,362 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 408 | #20,389 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 181 | #2,284 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 111 | #25,662 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 111 | #25,489 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 109 | — |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 108 | #16 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 307 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Flore?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Flore (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Flore have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Flore in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled flore.
- How common is Flore compared with other names?
- In France, Flore is the 756th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Flore a male or female name?
- Flore 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 Flore mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Flora, Roman goddess name related to flos ‘flower’.
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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, “Flore” — the 756th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.