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Flonnie vs Flor

American parents have registered 7,700 Flors since 1880, against 1,065 Flonnies. Flor is still ahead, with 81 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Flonnie against Flor, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Flonnie Flor

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 136 years in which either name was published, Flor for 74 years and Flonnie for 62 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Flonnie Flor
Total US births 1,0657,700
Most in one year 40277
Babies in 2025 under 581
Estimated living today 1407,500
Median age today 8126
Peak year 19142007
Best rank 932nd girls968th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,256th
First recorded 18891926
Girls / boys 1,065 / 07,608 / 92

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Flonnies alive today are over 81; half the Flors are over 26. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Flonnie and Flor.