Flore

Girls' name

Form of Flora

Flore has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1925, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Flore, 1933

1 in 333,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Flore: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Flora

Latin

What Flore means

Flore is a form of Flora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Flore is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /flɔʁ/ for Flore.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Flore → Flora. The family’s meaning is “flower”, recorded in the naming reference for Flora.

Origin, language, and formation

Flore is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Flora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Flore is pronounced /flɔʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Flore between 1911 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1925; its best national rank was #2,613 in 1911.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Flore?

Flore 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 333,000; 6 of 1,999,415 births
Among girls only: 1 in 168,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1933: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 230,983 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Flore 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 1933 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 230,983 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Flore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Flores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Flore was born before 1921 — so the typical Flore is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 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

Choose a decade

1920s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Flore 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 1925 (7)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,613; 1911

Spellings of Flore

Flore is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 54.8% against Flore's <0.01%.

Lori54.8%341,911
Flora11.4%70,971
Lora8.4%52,235
Clare5.0%31,456
Lorie3.5%21,964
Loren2.1%12,841
Alora1.9%11,893
Florine1.8%11,254

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.

Flore around the world

Where Flore 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.

France
1900–2025
#650
in 2025
Canada
1998–2024
#1,615
in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Flore 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: #2,613; 1911
Peak year: 1925; 7 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 1933
All-time count: 58
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Flore

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

Flory Flois Flower Floda Floss Floe Flossy Floriana Flori Nore Miamore Florian Floetta Diore Fiore Flona Floyda Floride Florean Florece Florina Evermore Flornce Florabel

Sibling names for Flore

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

Concepcion Easter Gene Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Alvis Jewel Eldridge Lenard Merritt

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