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Floretta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Flora

Floretta has been given to 2,071 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1930, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Floretta, 1981

1 in 384,000

Floretta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Floretta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Flora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Floretta means

Floretta is a diminutive of Flora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Floretta is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Flora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,071 girls were recorded with the name Floretta between 1890 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1930; its best national rank was #954 in 1908.

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.

How common is Floretta?

Floretta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 384,000
9 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 185,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,411 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Floretta 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 1981 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 266,411 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Floretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Florettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Floretta was born before 1936 — so the typical Floretta is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
550
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1930s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (432).

Is Floretta 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (51)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#954
1908

Spellings of Floretta

Floretta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 89.9% against Floretta's 1.0%.

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 Floretta is used

Across 1910–2025, Floretta was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 462,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6Missouri1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Floretta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Floretta around the world

Where Floretta 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.

  • South Australia
    1959–1959
    #625
    in 1959

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Floretta

People whose public names include Floretta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Floretta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Floretta. Linked forms have their own page here.

Floreta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Floretta 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
#954
1908
Peak year
1930
51 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
2,071
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Floretta

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

FlorindaFloranceFlorenciaJuliettaFloettaViolettaMaryettaNicolettaColettaArlettaFlorentinaLouettaFlorinaFlorrieCarlottaFloridaGeorgettaBrigittaWillettaFlonniePaulettaLovettaLorrettaKenyetta

Names with a curve like Floretta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Floretta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArlettaVerdellReathaErleneDeanGlennisEloisMardellBernardineRuthaLoyceInell

Sibling names for Floretta

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

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