Flossie
Flossie was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 21,845 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Flossie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (10% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 70 and 87.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Flossie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Flossie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Flossie is “a diminutive of the female given name Florence.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Flora.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Flossie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,971, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
613 babies in 1919, the peak
Flossie peaked in 1919, when 613 girls were given it, #257 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,441 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,882 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 9 | #6,503 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,808 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,660 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,813 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,293 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,209 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,999 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,507 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,606 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,161 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,039 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,524 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,559 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 65 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 69 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 68 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 76 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 89 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 87 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 102 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 123 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 121 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 108 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 108 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 141 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 149 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 159 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 152 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1940 | 156 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 171 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1938 | 184 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 204 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1936 | 201 | #450 | 0.19 |
| 1935 | 249 | #413 | 0.24 |
| 1934 | 276 | #386 | 0.26 |
| 1933 | 292 | #375 | 0.29 |
| 1932 | 289 | #386 | 0.27 |
| 1931 | 292 | #378 | 0.27 |
| 1930 | 366 | #341 | 0.33 |
| 1929 | 375 | #333 | 0.34 |
| 1928 | 397 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1927 | 418 | #330 | 0.35 |
| 1926 | 445 | #315 | 0.38 |
| 1925 | 455 | #311 | 0.37 |
| 1924 | 467 | #309 | 0.37 |
| 1923 | 505 | #288 | 0.42 |
| 1922 | 478 | #294 | 0.40 |
| 1921 | 534 | #287 | 0.43 |
| 1920 | 544 | #280 | 0.45 |
| 1919 | 613 | #257 | 0.54 |
| 1918 | 564 | #267 | 0.49 |
| 1917 | 574 | #259 | 0.53 |
| 1916 | 548 | #261 | 0.52 |
| 1915 | 582 | #244 | 0.59 |
| 1914 | 538 | #230 | 0.71 |
| 1913 | 463 | #223 | 0.74 |
| 1912 | 393 | #228 | 0.70 |
| 1911 | 339 | #209 | 0.81 |
| 1910 | 387 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1909 | 343 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1908 | 340 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 1907 | 391 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1906 | 296 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1905 | 406 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 1904 | 338 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1903 | 297 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1902 | 330 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1901 | 301 | #158 | 1.3 |
| 1900 | 368 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1899 | 265 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1898 | 320 | #158 | 1.2 |
| 1897 | 278 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1896 | 315 | #149 | 1.3 |
| 1895 | 295 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 1894 | 297 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1893 | 296 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1892 | 301 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 1891 | 292 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1890 | 231 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1889 | 221 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1888 | 182 | #160 | 1.0 |
| 1887 | 123 | #180 | 0.84 |
| 1886 | 105 | #192 | 0.73 |
| 1885 | 73 | #231 | 0.55 |
| 1884 | 70 | #230 | 0.54 |
| 1883 | 64 | #225 | 0.57 |
| 1882 | 33 | #309 | 0.31 |
| 1881 | 28 | #299 | 0.30 |
| 1880 | 25 | #320 | 0.27 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Flossie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Flossie has been given almost only to girls: 37 boys in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Flossie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Flossie, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 10% of the 21,845 Americans ever recorded as Flossie. The median Flossie alive today is 79 years old; half are between 70 and 87.
The 2020 Census counted 2,491 people named Flossie (2,483 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,378 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 976 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 980 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 202 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
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 Flossie born?
The states with the most babies named Flossie are North Carolina, Kentucky and South Carolina, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1,242 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Kentucky | 1,145 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| South Carolina | 1,088 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Tennessee | 948 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 939 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 828 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 816 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 800 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 645 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 561 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Flossie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Flossie is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.3 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 Flossie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Flossie
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 Flossie and names like it
- Compare Flossie and GoldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFlossie peaked in 1919.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Flossie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Flossie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Flossie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.