Flora

At the 2020 census, 7,368 Americans bore the surname Flora — 4,670th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,368
Rank: 4,670th
How common: 1 in 40,600
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

From Latin Flōra.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Flora described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Flora

Thalia Flora-Karavia (1871–1960)Greek painter

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

Surnames like Flora

Also a first name

Flora has been given to 71,143 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.