Names That Mean Flower

If Rose and even Primrose feel too mainstream for you, this underused floral name — belonging to a perennial shrub with bright pink flowers — might fit the bill.

This beautiful Hawaiian girl's name has a lot of potential to cross over to the mainland as Leilani and similar names enjoy their current spotlight.

Close in look and sound to Zara and Zahra, but with a lovely natural meaning.

Derived from viorea, the Romanian word for the sweet violet flower. Former Romanian prime minister Viorica Dănicilă is a famous bearer.

This Dutch girls' name meaning little flower is one of the more common Dutch-origin names used in the Netherlands today.

A happy-sounding nature name that's currently popular in Lithuania.

A beautiful and rare botanical choice belonging to a tiny white flower, and also to the ship that first brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620.

Here's a name that turns crosses cultures when spelled Liliana but could be down on the farm when fashioned Lillyanna.

Irit means "asphodel," which refers to a genus of perennial flower native to the Mediterranean and Middle East.

A unisex Hawaiian name with a fitting meaning. It also happens to mean "cloud" in Maori.

A beautiful rare Lu- name that also boasts a gorgeous nature-related meaning.

One of a bunch of attractive Slavic names with the same meaning, which also includes Slovene Cvetka, Slovak Kveta, and Bulgarian Tsveta.

Heitiare is a classic Tahitian name that's virtually unknown in the US.

Persian and Punjabi variant of Jasmine or Yasmin

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Barrett made this lovely and unusual flower name familiar to English speakers. Giacinda is the Italian version.

The name of a small town in Verona, Belfior would make a distinct alternative to the popular "Bel" names.

Parul sounds almost like Pearl to the Western ear, which makes it a friendly cross-cultural Indian name. The flower the name Parul refers to has five petals.