Florida — girls' name

What the Data Says About Florida

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,527 babies named Florida between 1880 and 1994, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Florida currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 99 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Florida performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 754 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Florida shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 304 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Florida in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Florida 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 3,527 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.