Florene

Where Florene comes from

Florene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1919
    Peak, #513
    176 babies named Florene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1920
    Florene Miller Watson born
    American aviator and educator
  4. 1938
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #749.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Florene Miller Watson · American aviator and educator, 1920–2014

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.