Floris
Floris is a girl's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 1,360th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1957. About 90 Florises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 81.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Floris boys named Floris
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 691
- Estimated living today
- 90
- Median age today
- 81
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,360th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1904
- Girls / boys
- 669 / 22
How old the living Florises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 691 babies given the name since 1904, about 90 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1944 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Dutch
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Floriss
- Floris V, Count of Holland (1254–1296)Count of Holland from 1256 to 1296
- Floris I, Count of Holland (1020–1061)Dutch noble
- Floris IV, Count of Holland (1210–1234)Count of Holland from 1222 to 1234
- Floris II, Count of Holland (1091–1122)Count of Holland
- Floris III (1141–1190)Count of Holland from 1157 to 1190
- Floris Adriaan van Hall (1791–1866)Dutch politician
- Floris van Dyck (1575–1651)painter from the Northern Netherlands
- Floris De Tier (born 1992)Belgian cyclist
People named Floris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Floris is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Floris peaked:
Floris elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Floris | 1,479 | 105th |
| France boys | Floris | 1,060 | 1,480th |
| Switzerland boys | Floris | 102 | 604th |
| England and Wales boys | Floris | 7 | 3,848th |
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.
Floris: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Floris | 84 | 0.007% | 436th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Floris | 18 | 0.004% | 529th |
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, Floris is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Floris: rank by region
In 2025, Floris was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Floris | 96 | 58 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Floris appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (79th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of West Flanders (95th), Province of Flemish Brabant (102nd) and Province of East Flanders (132nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Floris by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Floris 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 | Floris | 11,844 | 16,637 |
| Finland boys | Floris | — | 7 |
| the Netherlands girls | Floris | — | 7 |
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.
Related names
Floris against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.