Florance
Florance is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 647th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191750 births
- Best rank
- #647in 1882
- Since 1880
- 1,672people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,672 girls have been named Florance in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 50 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Florance | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 61 | |
| 1890s | 105 | |
| 1900s | 132 | |
| 1910s | 344 | |
| 1920s | 352 | |
| 1930s | 247 | |
| 1940s | 178 | |
| 1950s | 114 | |
| 1960s | 91 | |
| 1970s | 32 | |
| 1980s | 11 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Florance was the 989th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Florance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edithpeak 1918
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Leotapeak 1918
- Unapeak 1921
- Nellpeak 1917
- Annispeak 1920
- Inapeak 1921
- Althapeak 1917
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.