Flora
Flora is ranked 648th among girls in 2024 (452 births). Its best rank was 68th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #648up 34 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4520.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19201,566 births
- Best rank
- #68in 1880
- Since 1880
- 70,483people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,483 girls have been named Flora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,566 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Flora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,195 | |
| 1890s | 5,442 | |
| 1900s | 6,015 | |
| 1910s | 11,761 | |
| 1920s | 13,962 | |
| 1930s | 8,727 | |
| 1940s | 6,179 | |
| 1950s | 4,411 | |
| 1960s | 2,277 | |
| 1970s | 1,139 | |
| 1980s | 829 | |
| 1990s | 718 | |
| 2000s | 1,008 | |
| 2010s | 1,800 | |
| 2020s | 2,020 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Flora was the 149th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Flora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jessiepeak 1918
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Anniepeak 1922
- Lilliepeak 1919
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Dolliepeak 1921
- Clarapeak 1918
- Emmerpeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.