Florian

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Florian is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 531◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.2K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈148K ●

across 11 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
401 ●

406K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 531 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

FlorianLatin · French●870K records
ฟลอเรียนThai · Thai●18 records
ΦλωριάνGreek · Greek●2 records
플로리안Hangul · Korean●0 records

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 Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Florian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#132127,845389K rec.1 in 531128KFlorian401
PL Poland—11,346△4 rec.1 in 3.4K11K—1
BE Belgium#3794,8204.8K rec.—16Florian88
US United States—2,6293.3K rec.1 in 127K3.9KFlorian188
CH Switzerland#3281,972978 rec.—84Florian97
AL Albania—1,971—1 in 1.6K2K——
ES Spain—1,681△783 rec.1 in 30K1.7KFlorian56
SE Sweden—1,276△34 rec.1 in 8K1.3K—19
PH Philippines—1,0611K rec.—listedFlorian17
CA Canada—991957 rec.—3Florian78
GB United Kingdom—679457 rec.—listedFlorian71
TZ Tanzania—635655 rec.——Florian19

Roughly 128K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 531). 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●

  • French870K52%
  • German467K28%
  • Hungarian109K6%
  • English89K5%
  • Polish44K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French870,18552%
German466,68828%
Hungarian109,1726%
English88,8565%
Polish44,4713%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Florian is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name667K records spelled Florian41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Romania, United States

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Flórián, Florianus, Florián, Flörian, Floriàn

  • Spanish given name120K records spelled Florian35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, Argentina, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Floriano, Florián, Florían, Floriàn, Flörianö

  • Polish given name63K records spelled Florian63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Croatia, Czechia, Ukraine

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Florijan, Флоріан, Флориан, Florián, Флорян

  • Romanian given name14K records spelled Florian7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Flórián, Floriàn, Florianus, Flörìân, Florián

  • Albanian given name9.5K records spelled Florian8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Flörïâñ, Florían, Floriàñ, Flöríäñ, Flóríán

  • a separate given name6.6K records spelled Florian5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Florián, Floríán, Florían, Flórián

  • Finnish given name3.8K records spelled Florian5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Switzerland, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Florianus, Florián

  • Danish given name3.4K records spelled Florian13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Florián, Florianus, Flórián

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Florian 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, From Latin Florianus, from florus/flos ‘flower, bloom’.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, from Latin Florianus, from flos 'flower'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, from the personal name Florian; here used as a field/farm name

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, Latin; a flower, blooming; masculine form of Flora

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • $ From Latin Floridnus ‘flowery’. St Florian is the patron saint of Upper Austria and of Poland.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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●

050100150190019502000125 · 1921

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Florian in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1886–2025
Yearrecords
18866
18906
18926
18937
18946
18955
18967
18996
19027
19048
19058
19068
19076
19088
190912
191016
191118
191237
191363
191461
191592
191698
1917121
1918110
1919100
192093
1921125
1922103
1923102
192498
1925105
1926100
192776
192882
192969
193065
193167
193261
193356
193455
193530
193647
193747
193841
193938
194039
194148
194226
194337
194438
194525
194636
194735
194829
194920
195018
195120
195218
195323
195424
195523
195624
195714
195818
195926
19607
196114
19629
196310
196415
19657
19668
19678
19686
19699
19708
19716
19727
197310
19758
19769
19779
19786
19816
19827
19836
19847
198513
198613
198712
19888
19898
199012
199111
199210
199312
19949
199513
199615
199711
199814
199913
200017
20019
200217
200317
200411
200511
200617
200715
200817
200915
201025
201114
201213
20138
201416
201517
201618
201719
201822
201911
202020
202131
202224
202337
202437
202554

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 128 years between 1886–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Florian Znaniecki, b. 1882Gregor Gysi, b. 1948Hans Zimmer, b. 1957Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, b. 1973Florian Lukas, b. 1973Florian Zeller, b. 1979Florian Kohfeldt, b. 1982Florian Munteanu, b. 1990Florian Thauvin, b. 1993Florian Wirtz, b. 2003

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 104 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Florian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024128K#873
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot201954K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names201954K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202433K#30
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202611K#111
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5.9K#215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,175
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,167
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#5,906
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.6K#1,165
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.3K#319

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,042 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Florian?
We estimate roughly 148 thousand people bear Florian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Florian have the most bearers?
We estimate about 128 thousand people bear Florian in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled florian.
Where is Florian most common?
Florian is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 531 people carrying it.
How common is Florian compared with other names?
In France, Florian is the 132nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Florian a male or female name?
Florian is a male 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 Florian mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latin Florianus, related to flos/flor- ‘flower, blooming’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Florian” — the 132nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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