Floride — girls' name
85 babies named Floride in U.S. Social Security records since 1887, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
60% of everyone ever named Floride was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Floride in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Floride
The Social Security Administration has registered 85 babies named Floride between 1887 and 1929, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Floride currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1929. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Floride performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Floride shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Floride in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Floride 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 85 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.
Floride at a glance
Last recorded 1929Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Floride popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1929–1887
- Peak year (1916)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1929.
85 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 12 births in a single year.
Floride by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 51 births that decade — 60% of Floride's all-time total
Floride decade highlights
- Peak decade 51 births
- Runner-up 24 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Floride's strongest decade
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 60% of all-time use.
Floride by state
Where Floride concentrates geographically — total births since 1887
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | South Carolina | | 21 | 24.7% |
21 of 85 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- South Carolina 24.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
South Carolina accounts for 24.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1887–1929 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.