Entry № 3389 · Latin origin

Flora Flora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FLOR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Flower (Roman goddess Flora + Botticelli's Primavera)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "flower (roman goddess flora + botticelli's primavera)".

Flora is the Roman goddess of flowers and spring — from the Latin flos, floris ("flower"). The Roman goddess Flora — honored at the annual Floralia festival (April 28 - May 3); her cult was associated with sexuality and fertility; one of the oldest Roman deities. Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1480) — the Renaissance masterpiece in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence; Flora appears as the figure scattering flowers in the iconic spring scene; one of the most-reproduced paintings in Western art history. Flora Buffini — British playwright. Flora Maxwell — Australian children's TV host. Flora the fairy in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Flower (Roman goddess Flora + Botticelli's Primavera) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Flora
Transliteration
Flora
Pronunciation
/ ˈflɔːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Flora stands.

Flora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Floras before her.

Real people
Flora MacDonald
Scottish heroine.
1722 – 1790
Flora Tristan
French-Peruvian socialist writer.
1803 – 1844
In fiction
Flora
Roman goddess + Botticelli's Primavera.
c. 1480
Flora the fairy
Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
1959

Names connected to Flora.

The number behind Flora.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Flora reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.