Floris
Floris is a name with a single cultural origin: Dutch.
- Dutch
Meaning & Origin of Floris
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Floris is a name with a single cultural origin: Dutch.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Dutch
The Story of Floris
Floris first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1904, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1918: 32 births, good for #1,360 nationwide. About 31% of every Floris on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Floris last appeared in the published SSA data in 1957, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 669 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Floris
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Floris. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Floor
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About the name Floris
Floris is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1904 and has accumulated 669 births in the dataset. Floris's peak popularity came in 1918 when it ranked #1,360. Use the chart and map above to compare Floris'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.