Florance
Florance was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,677 among girls’ names; 1,677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Florance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Florance mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Florance is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Florance?
#15,677 among girls’ names, 2025
Florance rose from #17,338 in 2015 to #15,677 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
50 babies in 1917, the peak
Florance peaked in 1917, when 50 girls were given it, #989 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,677 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,338 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,685 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,011 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,350 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,721 | 6.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,190 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,680 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,677 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,520 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 12 | #4,069 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,892 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,969 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,420 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,099 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,082 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,345 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,902 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,205 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,053 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,539 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,399 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,440 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,065 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,332 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,258 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,846 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,585 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,086 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,437 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,561 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,522 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,093 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,586 | 20.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,181 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,334 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,443 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,858 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,560 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,823 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,652 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,710 | 19.2 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,392 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,454 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,624 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,574 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,298 | 30.1 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,413 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,571 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,695 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,179 | 36.1 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,553 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,387 | 27.9 |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,132 | 38.4 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,250 | 32.3 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,320 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,285 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,246 | 31.7 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,111 | 38.9 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,048 | 41.5 |
| 1917 | 50 | #989 | 46.2 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,255 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,028 | 42.7 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,009 | 46.0 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,283 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 30 | #929 | 53.8 |
| 1911 | 22 | #940 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 20 | #982 | 50.4 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,243 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,058 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,006 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,118 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 15 | #981 | 51.4 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,195 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 16 | #872 | 61.1 |
| 1902 | 15 | #915 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,549 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 16 | #949 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,476 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 16 | #857 | 61.8 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,000 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 12 | #971 | 50.4 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,231 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 15 | #795 | 67.3 |
| 1893 | 10 | #979 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,118 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 9 | #963 | 48.5 |
| 1890 | 10 | #889 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 8 | #979 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 11 | #811 | 61.6 |
| 1887 | 7 | #981 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 7 | #929 | 48.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #969 | 45.1 |
| 1882 | 9 | #647 | 83.5 |
| 1881 | 6 | #775 | 65.3 |
| 1880 | 7 | #698 | 76.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Florance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Florance has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Florance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Florance, and how old are they?
An estimated 378 Americans named Florance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 62 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 776 people named Florance (762 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 342,365 babies since 1880, Florance is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 801 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Florance
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 Florance and names like it
- Compare Florance and FlorenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFlorance peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Florance since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Florance.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Florance alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.