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Florian

Florian is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 562nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,480th. About 1,200 Florians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Florian boys named Florian

By the numbers

Total US births
3,746
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
33
Peak year
1921
Best rank
562nd
Rank in 2025
2,480th
First recorded
1886
Girls / boys
55 / 3,691

How old the living Florians are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,746 babies given the name since 1886, about 1,200 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Florians

People named Florian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Florian is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Florian is most concentrated in Wisconsin (11.7×), Minnesota (6.3×), Illinois (4.9×), Michigan (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular boys’ names the year Florian peaked:

All the names of 1921

Florian elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Florian 127,880 9th
Austria boys Florian 33,545 8th
Belgium boys Florian 5,241 21st
Poland boys Florian 3,510 birth registrations 63rd
Switzerland boys Florian 3,420 16th
Italy boys Florian 719
England and Wales boys Florian 403 873rd
Norway boys Florian 162 335th
Ireland boys Florian 7 637th
Scotland boys Florian 3 762nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Florian: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Florian 2,816 0.226% 20th
French boys Switzerland Florian 575 0.132% 25th
Italian boys Switzerland Florian 18 0.028% 75th
Romansh boys Switzerland Florian 11 0.296% 5th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Florian is most concentrated in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, where 0.37% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Florian: rank by region

In 2025, Florian was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Florian 141 42
Wallonia Florian 317 8

In 2025, Florian was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Florian 62 30
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Florian 71 14
Lubelskie Florian 62 14
Lubuskie Florian 49 13
Łódzkie Florian 76 16
Małopolskie Florian 68 32
Mazowieckie Florian 78 43
Opolskie Florian 44 15
Podkarpackie Florian 52 26
Podlaskie Florian 64 9
Pomorskie Florian 54 39
Śląskie Florian 52 54
Świętokrzyskie Florian 82 4
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Florian 60 15
Wielkopolskie Florian 47 58
Zachodniopomorskie Florian 59 16

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Florian appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (86th), Province of Antwerp (139th), Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Province of West Flanders (178th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Florian by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 201 77th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Florian among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands boys Florian 2,591 4,161
Finland boys Florian 57 116
the Netherlands girls Florian 36 56

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Florian lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,681 men called Florian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Soria Florian 11 0.240 354
Cáceres Florian 45 0.234 368
Salamanca Florian 32 0.201 407
Castellón/Castelló Florian 60 0.192 456
Zamora Florian 15 0.183 434
Cuenca Florian 18 0.178 446

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Florian against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.