Florance — girls' name

What the Data Says About Florance

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,672 babies named Florance between 1880 and 2015, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Florance currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 50 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Florance performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 352 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Florance shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Florance in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Florance in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,672 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.