Florida
Florida was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 3,532 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Florida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Florida?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,152, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
99 babies in 1925, the peak
Florida peaked in 1925, when 99 girls were given it, #745 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,565 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,753 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,316 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,115 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | #7,733 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,601 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,242 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,083 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,763 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,980 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 61 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 44 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 65 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 58 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 49 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 54 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 51 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 56 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 58 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 70 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 76 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 78 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 99 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 72 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 72 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 72 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 86 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 71 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 66 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 70 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 58 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 62 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 74 | #771 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 59 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 58 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 54 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 44 | #654 | 0.11 |
| 1910 | 43 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 36 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 35 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 37 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 37 | #580 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 40 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 36 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 44 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1902 | 41 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1901 | 27 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 57 | #442 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 31 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 48 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 29 | #558 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 45 | #429 | 0.19 |
| 1895 | 40 | #461 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 27 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 33 | #469 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 26 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1891 | 28 | #487 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 28 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1889 | 21 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 40 | #381 | 0.22 |
| 1887 | 21 | #493 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 10 | #748 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 20 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 18 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 19 | #441 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 11 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 13 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 10 | #559 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Florida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Florida has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Florida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Florida, and how old are they?
An estimated 661 Americans named Florida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,856 people named Florida (1,817 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 901 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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).
Where are babies named Florida born?
The states with the most babies named Florida are Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 304 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| Louisiana | 242 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Florida | 215 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Arkansas | 158 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Texas | 74 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 66 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Florida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Florida is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.5 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 girls’ 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 Florida 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,970 babies since 1880, Florida is the most given (89% of them).
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 Florida
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 Florida and names like it
- Compare Florida and FlordiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFlorida peaked in 1925.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Florida since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Florida.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Florida alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.