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Florida

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Florida has been given to 3,532 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 99 recorded.

Babies named Florida, 1994

1 in 743,000

Florida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Florida: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Florida means

Florida is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Florida is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,527 girls were recorded with the name Florida between 1880 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1925; its best national rank was #381 in 1888.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Florida between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1918; its best national rank was #4,393 in 1918.

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 Florida?

Florida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 743,000
5 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
515,144 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Florida 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 1994 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 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Florida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Floridas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Florida was born before 1923 — so the typical Florida is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
396
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (754).

Is Florida 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 1925 (99)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#381
1888

Spellings of Florida

Florida is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 78.7% against Florida's 0.67%.

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 Florida is used

Across 1910–2025, Florida was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 41,517 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 6,667
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 11,111
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6Rhode Island1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maine1 in 100,000

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. Florida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Florida around the world

Where Florida 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
    #6,505
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1959–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Florida

People whose public names include Florida, 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.

Florida in other languages

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

Floria

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

Florida 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
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Best rank ever
#381
1888
Peak year
1925
99 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
3,527
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,393
1918
Peak year
1918
5 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Florida

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

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Names with a curve like Florida

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

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Sibling names for Florida

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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