Flower
#10,366 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Flower has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #10,366 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Flower, 2025
1 in 368,000
Flower 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Flower?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,366
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Flower sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Flower. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Flowers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Flower was born before 2012 — so the typical Flower is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 29.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 127
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Flower 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
- +3,672
- Places climbed
- 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2021 (9)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.5% average annual change
Spellings of Flower
Flower is not the most common spelling — Flor is, with 43.7% against Flower's 0.73%.
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.
Flower around the world
Where Flower 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 Australia1978–1978#626in 1978
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Flower by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Flower
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Flower
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.