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Floria

Girls’ name Recorded 1898-2017

Floria was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,583 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

Babies named Floria each year, first recorded in 1898
Floria, 1890-2025; highest in 1939.10203040189019101930195019701990201020251939 peak: 38
Floria, 1890-2025; highest in 1939.10203040189019101930195019701990201020251939 peak: 38
Floria, 1890-2025; highest in 1939.1020304018901910193019501970199020251939 peak: 38
Floria, 1890-2025; highest in 1939.102030401890195020251939 peak: 38

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Floria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Floria mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Floria is “a female given name.”

From Flora + -ia.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Floria (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Floria?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,688, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

38 babies in 1939, the peak

Floria peaked in 1939, when 38 girls were given it, #1,186 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Floria by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
20175#16,6882.9
20056#15,1153.2
19895#13,0342.7
19885#12,4172.8
19795#10,6893.1
19775#10,1083.3
19766#8,4704.1
197011#4,8456.3
196912#4,2607.1
19689#4,8855.5
Every recorded year (78)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
19679#4,7285.5
196612#3,8067.1
19659#4,6005.1
196418#3,0329.5
196311#4,1005.7
196218#2,9629.2
196116#3,2317.9
196023#2,53211.4
195924#2,35911.9
195827#2,17513.4
195735#1,85017.1
195623#2,34011.5
195529#1,99114.8
195425#2,13812.9
195330#1,84415.9
195223#2,14912.4
195131#1,74717.2
195029#1,77016.9
194936#1,55121.0
194826#1,87115.3
194733#1,67318.6
194637#1,44323.5
194537#1,31928.3
194433#1,40924.9
194335#1,40725.1
194225#1,67818.5
194133#1,34327.3
194022#1,70719.2
193938#1,18634.7
193824#1,56621.7
193718#1,86516.9
193624#1,52323.1
193523#1,56921.9
193417#1,94516.3
193319#1,80018.9
193222#1,64320.6
193130#1,34728.2
193033#1,32829.3
192931#1,37627.8
192822#1,80119.1
192732#1,43326.8
192632#1,42527.0
192535#1,35428.8
192433#1,45326.4
192325#1,69320.7
192236#1,32130.0
192132#1,44726.0
192031#1,45425.9
191932#1,37728.3
191825#1,61521.6
191729#1,38626.8
191624#1,55123.0
191512#2,44412.2
191415#1,76819.7
191312#1,81319.2
191210#1,89517.9
191110#1,58023.9
191012#1,36830.3
19096#2,05117.3
19085#2,22915.0
19079#1,43728.3
19045#1,98618.2
19036#1,66822.9
19026#1,67022.7
190110#1,09141.8
19006#1,80720.0
18995#1,69121.5
18989#1,20234.8

Download Floria’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Floria a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Floria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Floria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Floria, and how old are they?

An estimated 622 Americans named Floria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 66 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Floria (823 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.

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 7 names spelled alike, given to 75,615 babies since 1880, Floria is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 490 babies recorded by SSA was a Floria (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).

Floria and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Flora71,1434831920
Floria1,583under 51939
Florrie1,541under 51921
Florie834under 51917
Floree372under 51919
Flory8471918
Flore58under 51925

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 Floria

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1890-2025
Norene4,790
Marge3,784
Retha10,597
Melva14,185
Reatha2,624
Gaynelle1,554

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 Floria and names like it

  1. Compare Floria and FloraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1930sFloria peaked in 1939.
  3. Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Floria since 1910.
  4. The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Floria.
  5. The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Floria alive today were born 1946-1964.
  6. Names starting with FMost given first.

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