Flora

Where Flora comes from

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).
— Wiktionary's entry for Flora
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1803
    Flora Tristan born
    French writer and suffragist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #68 among girls with 365 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1949
    Flora Brovina born
    Kosovar human rights activist
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #730.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Flora Tristan · French writer and suffragist, 1803–1844
  • Flora Brovina · Kosovar human rights activist, 1949–2026
  • Flora Robson · English actress, 1902–1984
  • Flora Nwapa · Nigerian writer, 1931–1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.