Fun Facts About the Name Flower
- 127 babies named Flower: U.S. records list 127 babies given the name Flower from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Flower Mean?
Flower is an English vocabulary name meaning "blossom," taken directly from the common noun for the bloom of a plant. The noun comes from Middle English flour, borrowed from Old French flor, which descends from Latin flōs (genitive flōrem), "flower, blossom." In Middle English the word carried a second sense as well - the finest part or best example of something, as in "the flower of an army" - and that figurative meaning survives in modern English. Latin flōs is also the root behind floral, florid, and flourish.
Flower is not a shortened form of Florence. Florence goes back to the Latin name Florentius, built on flōrēns, "blooming, flourishing," which is a different formation from the noun flōs, even though the two share the same root. The French word for flower, Fleur, is used as a personal name and comes from the same Latin noun, so it is close in meaning, though it is a separate borrowing into English use.
Flower Name History & Origins
The word entered English after the Norman Conquest as Middle English flour, borrowed from Old French. Old English already had its own terms for the same idea, such as blōstm (blossom) and blōma (bloom), and the French-derived word gradually became the everyday term for a blossom in English. The same word also came to mean the finest grade of ground grain. The two senses were separated by spelling - flower for the blossom and flour for the milled grain - during the 18th century.
As a given name, Flower belongs to the long English habit of drawing personal names from ordinary vocabulary words, particularly plant and flower words. It has been used in England and in other English-speaking countries, and it is sometimes treated as an English equivalent of the French name Fleur. The same word also became an English surname, formed from the common noun in the Middle Ages. Flower itself has never been a common given name, and it remained far rarer than the flower names that were widely used in the 19th century, such as Rose, Lily, Daisy, and Violet.
A familiar modern use of the word as a character name is the skunk named Flower in the 1942 Disney film Bambi. That is a fictional naming for comic effect and has no bearing on how the name came into English use.
How Popular is the Name Flower?
Flower has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #9,196 in 1974.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,370 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #13,995 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #12,565 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #14,143 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #10,552 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #14,395 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #16,690 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #17,119 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #17,439 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #15,591 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #17,900 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #16,144 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #16,971 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #14,456 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #14,176 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #11,353 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #13,728 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #14,171 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #13,992 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #10,787 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1974 | #9,196 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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