🔥Flora

Latin

"flower"

Flora Origin and Meaning

The name Flora is a girl's name of Scottish, Latin origin meaning "flower".

Flora, the name of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, who enjoyed eternal youth, is one of the gently old-fashioned girls' flower names we think is due for a comeback— alongside cousins Cora and Dora. Florence, Fiorella, Fleur, and Flower are translations, but we like Flora best of all.

Also the name of a saint, Flora has long been a favorite in Scotland where it was the name of the young heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie make his way to the Isle of Skye. In Gaelic, her name was Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill, but the Anglicized Flora caught on with the Scots, who used it disproportionately compared to the rest of the UK until the 20th century.

Flora was a Top 100 name in the 1880s and 1890s but gradually descended until it finally fell off the list in 1972. It is still popular in some European countries, including Hungary and France.

There have been a number of memorable Floras in literature, including the angelic little girl in Henry James's Turn of the Screw, the exasperating but charming Flora Poste in Stella Gibson's Cold Comfort Farm, Flora MacIvor in Walter Scott's Waverly, and one of the three Good Fairies in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

Flora is the name of the eighth child and fifth daughter of Ballerina Farm Instastar Hannah Neeleman. Neeleman is one of the main inspirations for our Natural Glamour group of names that makes up one of the prime baby name trends of the year, a trend that includes Flora.

Flora Rank in US Top 1000

# 684 in the US

Flora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 82 on Nameberry

Flora Popularity

• 684 US 2023
• 82 Nameberry 2024
• 52 Unique 2018
• 122 Canada 2023
• 548 Future 2028
• 220 England 2021
• 103 Scotland 2023
• 225 Germany 2016
• 60 Austria 2023
• 92 Slovenia 2023

20 Names Similar to Flora

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Flora.

• Florence
• Clementine
• Fleur
• Iris
• Daisy
• Clover
• Ivy
• Freya
• Cordelia
• Luna
• Clara
• Hazel
• Violet
• Aurora
• Cora
• Daphne
• Mabel
• Juniper
• Olive
• Beatrice

Famous People Named Flora

• Flora McKenzie Robson English actress
• Flora Payne Whitney American socialite; member of the Vanderbilt family
• Flora Call Disney mother of Walt Disney
• Flora May Augusta Flannagan birth name of Florrie Forde, Australian pop singer
• Flora Zuzori Ragusan (Croatian) poet
• Flora Purim Brazilian jazz singer
• Flora Macdonald Reid British painter
• Flora Anne Selina Montgomery Northern Irish actress
• Flora Carabella Italian actress
• Flora Coquerel Miss France Universe 2015
• Flora Chan (Wai shan), Hong Kong actress
• Flora Keays (b. 1993) daughter of British politician Cecil Parkinson
• Flora Nolan (b. 2001) daughter of director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas
• Flora Solano (b. 2010) daughter of actor Mateus Solano
• Flora Jibson (b. 2012) daughter of actors Michael Jibson and Caroline Sheen
• Flora Oosterhouse (b. 2016) daughter of actress Amy Smart and Carter Oosterhouse

Flora in Pop Culture

• Flora Poste main character in Stella Gibsons's "Cold Comfort Farm"
• Flora character in "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
• Flora a member of "Winx Club"
• Flora one of the three Good Fairies in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"
• Flora brand of margarine/spread in the UK
• Flora Gilchrist character in the movie "St Ives"
• Flora Wentworth one of the 12 sisters in the book "Entwined" by Heather Dixon
• Flora MacIvor character in Walter Scott's 1814 novel "Waverley"
• Flora Northrop character in the "Main Street" series by Ann M. Martin
• Flora Finching character in "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens
• Flora Reinhold character in Professor Layton video game
• Flora Habstat character in The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
• Flora character from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"