Flora is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Flora isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Flora ranks 973. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Flora. In the entire USA, approximately 49,311 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Flora. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Flora is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Flora for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Flora is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Flora is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #67 Flora has never been more popular than back in 1880.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Flora was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 399 babies were named Flora in the USA in 2022, ranking it #664 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1996, when it was only ranked #2,105 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 58 girls were named Flora.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Flora is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Flora and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Flora, you can simply say:
Fox
Lion
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Flora
Flora
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
L
O
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
L
O
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Flora sounds like this:
