Flora
Where Flora comes from
From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).
- Latin
- 2 syllables
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1803Flora Tristan bornFrench writer and suffragist
- 1880First SSA year, and the peak#68 among girls with 365 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
- 1949Flora Brovina bornKosovar human rights activist
- 1966The fadeThe 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.