Floella

Girls' name

Form of Flo

Floella has been given to 212 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 1927, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Floella, 1942

1 in 390,000

Floella over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Floella: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Flo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Floella means

Floella is a form of Flo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Floella is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /floʊ.ˈɛl.ə/ for Floella.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Flo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 girls were recorded with the name Floella between 1914 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,633 in 1927.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Floella?

Floella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1942: 1 in 390,000; 7 of 2,731,825 births
Among girls only: 1 in 193,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1942: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 270,509 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Floella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1942 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 270,509 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Floella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Floellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Floella was born before 1928 — so the typical Floella is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Floella 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 1927 (26)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 49.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,633; 1927

Spellings of Floella

Floella is not the most common spelling — Luella is, with 55.0% against Floella's 0.36%.

Luella55.0%32,605
Louella23.5%13,958
Joella7.1%4,204
Noella5.4%3,215
Lovella2.9%1,735
Fiorella2.8%1,639
Clella1.5%887
Lella1.5%864

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.

Where Floella is used

Across 1910–2025, Floella was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 208,163 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Arkansas1 in 100,000
2Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Floella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Floella around the world

Where Floella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2002–2024
#4,193
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Floella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,633; 1927
Peak year: 1927; 26 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1942
All-time count: 212
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Floella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Florella Florina Flower Labella Ornella Florena Aniella Astella Floreen Flornce Bryella Flordia Aryella Breella Talulla Mayella Floriana Aviella Israella Marella Florean Florita Eriella Isobella

Sibling names for Floella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud Hosea

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