Flor
Fewer than 30 people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Flor. Latin at root, where it means "flower", and used mainly in the Spanish-speaking world.
Flor Pronunciation
Flor is pronounced FLOR (/flɔr/).
What Flor means
Where Flor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Flor comes straight from Latin. The root is flos, genitive floris, and it means flower. Spanish carried the sound almost whole and settled on flor, the plain word a Spanish speaker still uses for any bloom in a shop or a garden. The name and the everyday noun stayed a single thing.
In Spanish-speaking countries Flor works on its own as a woman's name, short and complete without a diminutive. That same Latin root gave Rome the goddess Flora, who governed flowers and spring, and her festival, the Floralia, ran across late April. So the syllable behind the name is old, older than Spanish itself.
A child called Flor would stand out on a class register in Kraków, one Latin flower among the Zofias and Julias. The meaning needs no gloss for a Polish reader who knows florysta, the florist. Flor is kwiat.
How many people are named Flor
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Flor. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8049 among female names.
Flor as a middle name
Flor is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1910th, between Fleur (15) and Franczeska (15).
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#1908 Fabia15
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#1909 Fleur15
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#1910 Flor15
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#1911 Franczeska15
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#1912 Gabi15