Florine
Feminine · “flower”
Florine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 11,254 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Florine is a flower with a French ending — the Latin flos, which gives flora, flourish and floral, and which named a Roman goddess of spring.
How old is the name Florine?
Florine first appears in US birth records in 1883 — 142 years ago. The typical Florine alive today was born around 1927, making them about 98 years old. About 2,700 people named Florine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Florine most popular?
Florine peaked in 1921, reaching #329 nationally. See the whole 1921 chart.
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Where it comes from
From flos to Florine
The story of Florine
The flos family produced a large set of names across Latin Europe — Flora, Florence, Florina, Florentine, Fleur. French and German both used Florine. It reached American records in the nineteenth century, where it ran alongside Florence at its enormous height, and Florine peaked around 1918.
Meaning
flower, flowering
From the Latin flos, genitive floris, 'flower', through the name Florus or Florina. Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and of the spring, and her festival the Floralia was among the more exuberant in the calendar. The element is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- flos
- Florina
- Florine
Related forms: Florine · Florine · Fiorina
Pronouncing Florine
flor-EEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Some bearers say FLOR-in with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Florine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1883
- Most girls named
- 1921398 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #329reached in 1921
- Change vs 1984
- +20.0%6 in 1990, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Florine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Florine in French — same name
- Florine in German — same name
- Fiorina in Italian — related form
Florines among us
people named Florine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Florine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The flower meaning is concrete, transparent and undisputed.
- A Roman goddess and a large family of European names stand behind it.
- Flo and Rina are two short forms at very different registers.
- Florence and Flora are both commoner and close in sound.
- The stress placement splits between two readings.
- It is strongly period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Florines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Florine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Florine in 2025?
- Florine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Florine with classmates?
- Florine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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