Entry № 3402 · English origin

Flossie Flossie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FLOSS-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Flower (Flossie Wong-Staal, HIV co-discoverer)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "flower (flossie wong-staal, hiv co-discoverer)".

Flossie is the English diminutive of Florence — ultimately from the Latin florere ("to flower, to bloom"). Flossie Mae Hunter — American activist. Flossie also appears as a popular dairy-cow name across American and English farming traditions — the cows of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970) include Flossie. The name is currently undergoing a vintage-revival as one of the -ie / -y feminine diminutives along with Birdie, Sadie, Nellie, and Lottie.

Flower (Flossie Wong-Staal, HIV co-discoverer) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Flossie
Transliteration
Flossie
Pronunciation
/ ˈflɒs.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Flossie stands.

Flossie 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.

Flossies before her.

Real people
Flossie Wong-Staal
Chinese-American HIV co-discoverer.
1947 – 2020
Flossie Lewis
American educator.
1909 – 2018
In fiction
Flossie Bobbsey
The Bobbsey Twins.
1904

Names connected to Flossie.

The number behind Flossie.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Flossie reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.