Flora
Latin at root, from the word for "flower". Still rare in Poland: most people have never met one, but births have been climbing through the 2020s, with 27 girls given the name last year.
Flora Pronunciation
Flora is pronounced FLO-rah (/ˈflɔra/).
What Flora means
Where Flora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Flora comes straight from Latin. The word flos, in the genitive floris, means flower, and that is the whole of the name's short meaning: kwiat, a bloom given human shape. The Romans already knew Flora as the goddess of flowering plants and spring, honored each year at the games called Floralia. So the name arrived carrying a season with it, the part of the year when things open.
For centuries the name stayed close to that sense. Flora of Córdoba, a Christian woman put to death in the ninth century, gave it a place in the calendar of saints, and Polish imieniny lists still mark a day for the name.
Short. Latin. A flower.
On a class register in a Polish school, Flora sits among names with longer histories in the country, rarer but never strange. There are no diminutives handed down with it here, no softened variant to hide behind, only the plain form. A girl named Flora carries a single Latin noun for a flower, and it means exactly what it says: kwiat.
When Flora celebrates name day
Flora appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 24 November.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Flora
1 in 72488 women in Poland is named Flora. 311 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1713 among female names.
Flora's popularity over time
27 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #457 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Flora is most popular
Flora is most popular in Masovian, 119% above the national average (46 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+93%) and Silesian (+34%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland, 72% and 26% below average respectively.
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Masovian46 girls born+119%
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Lower Silesian18 girls born+93%
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Silesian18 girls born+34%
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Greater Poland17 girls born+33%
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Pomeranian11 girls born+26%
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West Pomeranian6 girls born+20%
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Lesser Poland10 girls born−26%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−72%
Flora as a middle name
Flora is a first name for 311 women in Poland and a middle name for another 150, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 537th, between Tola (152) and Lili (150).
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#535 Therese153
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#536 Tola152
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#537 Flora150
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#538 Lili150
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#539 Rebecca150