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Florence
Pronounced /ˈfloɹəns/
Rank in 2024
#435
Born in 2024
711
Peak year
1918 · #14
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 711 girls were named Florence, about 1 in every 2,269.
- It peaked in 1918 with 11,318 babies, ranked #14.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 338,289 girls have been named Florence since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Florence per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 9.2Greatest1901–27
- 3.1Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 188,849 babies, 9.23 per 1,000. Silent: 64,496 babies, 3.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 20,705 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,373 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,735 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,058 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,109 babies, 0.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Florence f, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom. Doublet of Firenze. The female given name gained popularity from Florence Nightingale who was born in the Tuscan city. ==== Proper noun ==== Florence A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy. Alternative form: Firenze A metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence.
- A female given name from Latin.
- (obsolete) A male given name from Latin.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- /ˈfloɹəns/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Florence, CC BY-SA 4.0.