Flor
Flor was given to 81 girls in 2025, #2,263 among girls’ names; 7,700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,480 Americans named Flor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Flor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Flor mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Flor is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “flower” (flor).
From flor (“flower”).
/ˈfloɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Flor?
#2,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Flor rose from #2,285 in 2015 to #2,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 45.9 to 50.4 per million.
277 babies in 2007, the peak
Flor peaked in 2007, when 277 girls were given it, #969 among girls’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,263 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,828 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,067 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,998 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,984 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,121 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,465 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,120 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,192 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,277 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 82 | #2,285 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,015 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,069 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,851 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,725 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,551 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 193 | #1,291 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 277 | #969 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 264 | #984 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 276 | #907 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,162 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 178 | #1,198 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 185 | #1,125 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 176 | #1,170 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 201 | #1,040 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,047 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 172 | #1,119 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,044 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 183 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 201 | #937 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 183 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 179 | #1,028 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 207 | #937 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 186 | #999 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 168 | #1,057 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 158 | #1,067 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 164 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 113 | #1,219 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 89 | #1,423 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,325 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,542 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,571 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 107 | #1,229 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,610 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 100 | #1,215 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 88 | #1,265 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 74 | #1,417 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,635 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,551 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,864 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,044 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,222 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,178 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,208 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,144 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,393 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Flor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,700 Americans recorded as Flor, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 81 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Flor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Flor, and how old are they?
7,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,700 Americans ever recorded as Flor. The median Flor alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 23,797 people named Flor (23,393 women and girls, 404 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,995 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Flor rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 195 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 886 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Flor born?
The states with the most babies named Flor are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,289 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,484 | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,005 | 0.6× |
Where Flor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Flor is most over-represented in Texas: since 1926 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Flor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Flor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Flor and names like it
- Compare Flor and DaviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFlor peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Flor since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Flor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Flor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Flor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.