Florian
Florian was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,495 among boys’ names; 3,746 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Florian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 12 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Florian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Florian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Florian is “a male given name.”
Learned borrowing from Latin Flōriānus.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Florian?
#2,495 among boys’ names, 2025
Florian rose from #5,359 in 2015 to #2,495 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 31.6 per million.
130 babies in 1921, the peak
Florian peaked in 1921, when 130 babies were given it (125 boys, #563 among boys’ names). The 54 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,495 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,235 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,242 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,340 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,598 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,750 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,312 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,512 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,986 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,188 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,359 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,550 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,057 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,424 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,039 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,031 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,892 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,316 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,735 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,146 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,775 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,680 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,666 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,563 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,095 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,122 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,723 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,391 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,600 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,007 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,356 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,868 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,485 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,507 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,211 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,939 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,816 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,064 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,078 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 26 | #1,567 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,218 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,618 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,625 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,567 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,605 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,821 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,692 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,765 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,679 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,358 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,240 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,162 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,332 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,073 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,128 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,366 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 48 | #921 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,036 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,039 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 41 | #994 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 47 | #916 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 47 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 55 | #847 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 56 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 61 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 67 | #765 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 65 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 69 | #772 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 82 | #701 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 76 | #748 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 100 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 105 | #614 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 98 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 102 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 103 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 125 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 93 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 100 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 110 | #579 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 121 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 98 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 92 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 61 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 63 | #546 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 37 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 18 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 16 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 12 | #863 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 8 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 8 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 8 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 7 | #967 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 6 | #975 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 7 | #927 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 7 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 6 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #887 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Florian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,746 Americans recorded as Florian, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 54 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Florian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Florian, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 3,746 Americans ever recorded as Florian. The median Florian alive today is 33 years old; half are between 12 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 2,801 people named Florian (172 women and girls, 2,629 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 138 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 242 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 88 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 232 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 312 |
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 Florian born?
The states with the most babies named Florian are Illinois, Wisconsin and New York, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 405 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Wisconsin | 391 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| New York | 224 | #1,468 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 195 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 162 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 151 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 40 | #1,887 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Florian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Florian is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 4.5 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 boys’ 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 Florian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,803 babies since 1880, Florian is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 59 babies (92%), again the 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 Florian
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 Florian and names like it
- Compare Florian and FlorinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFlorian peaked in 1921.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Florian since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Florian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Florian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.