Flor
Flor is a unisex given name and nickname. It may refer to:Flor, Guatemalan-New Zealand drag performer Flor (singer), Argentine pop and rock singer Florencia "Flor" Caserta Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954), Belgian conductor, pedagogue and composer Flor Colón, Dominican retired volleyball player Flor Contemplacion (1953–1995), Filipino domestic worker whose execution in Singapore for murder created much…
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Flor
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Flor is a unisex given name and nickname. It may refer to:Flor, Guatemalan-New Zealand drag performer Flor (singer), Argentine pop and rock singer Florencia "Flor" Caserta Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954), Belgian conductor, pedagogue and composer Flor Colón, Dominican retired volleyball player Flor Contemplacion (1953–1995), Filipino domestic worker whose execution in Singapore for murder created much…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
- Portuguese
The Story of Flor
American parents first put Flor on the record books as a baby girl name in 1926, with 7 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2007, when 277 Flors were born — ranking #968 that year. About 27% of every Flor on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Flor ranks #1,833 for baby girls with 110 births, rising sharply (+20% over the past five years). All told, over 8K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Flor
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Flor. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Flor
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About the name Flor
Flor is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1926 and has accumulated 8K births in the dataset. Flor's peak popularity came in 2007 when it ranked #907. Use the chart and map above to compare Flor's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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