Flower Names
Flower names were a Victorian craze, a mid-century fixture, and are now in full second bloom. The classics (Rose, Lily, Violet) never really left; the rarer blossoms are where the finds are.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The purple bloom of open moorland. | 177#1,264 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 1975 | ||
The classic bloom — love's shorthand for centuries. | 2,386#114 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
The white blossom that scents the night. | 1,481#206 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Purity's flower, from Easter to the valley. | 6,673#18 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
The modest purple bloom the Victorians adored. | 7,546#13 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The herb of remembrance. | 1,222#251 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
The 'day's eye' that opens with the sun. | 3,206#75 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A flower and a rainbow goddess in one. | 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A rose name with French polish. | 1,797#171 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1938 | ||
The Roman flower goddess; the word for plant life itself. | 483#607 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Hawaiian: 'heavenly garland of flowers'. | 3,792#60 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The grand flowering tree of the South. | 2,233#124 | Up 52 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The showy late-summer bloom, named for botanist Anders Dahl. | 1,420#215 | Up 139 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The dahlia, in a softer spelling. | 340#800 | Up 274 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
The flame-bright spring shrub. | 1,109#278 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The bright red field flower of remembrance. | 1,054#292 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The sculptural white lily. | 156#1,397 | Up 163 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
All flowers at once. | 171#1,300 | Up 1,302 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The glossy winter rose. | 123#1,676 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The golden garden bloom — 'Mary's gold'. | 498#590 | Up 507 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The bloom that rises clean out of muddy water. | 110#1,826 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The hot-colored garden flower with the zigzag name. | 174#1,290 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The fragrant purple herb of calm. | 220#1,095 | Up 335 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Literally 'first rose' — among spring's earliest flowers. | 69#2,561 | Down 414 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Spring's perfumed purple shrub. | 35#4,130 | Up 1,123 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Simply 'flower', in French. | 11#9,053 | Up 6,844 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.