Flarence
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Flarence has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Flarence, 1933
1 in 400,000
Flarence over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Flarence?
Flarence had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1933, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1933
- 1 in 400,000
- 5 of 1,999,415 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 202,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1933
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 277,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Flarence sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1933 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 277,179 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Flarence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Flarences were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Flarence was born before 1917 — so the typical Flarence is around 108 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Flarence rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1917 (8)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 60.0% average annual change
Spellings of Flarence
Flarence is not the most common spelling — Florence is, with 96.6% against Flarence's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Flarence by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Flarence
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Flarence
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.