Flora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Flora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Flora: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #102, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#102highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#342
1997	#311
1998	#380
1999	#374
2000	#411
2001	#399
2002	#409
2003	#441
2004	#439
2005	#432
2006	#490
2007	#447
2008	#485
2009	#407
2010	#409
2011	#412
2012	#404
2013	#426
2014	#432
2015	#305
2016	#291
2017	#293
2018	#323
2019	#291
2020	#316
2021	#220
2022	#267
2023	#230
2024	#256

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #102 among girls in Scotland, #256 among girls in England and Wales, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #342 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Flora appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,499 births with the name.

Flora across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Flora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#342 (1996)	#220 (2021)	#256 (2024)	29 of 29	3,499 (1996–2024)	227 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#512 (2002)	#464 (2021)	#544 (2025)	13 of 24	59 (2002–2025)	8 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#446 (2021)	#328 (2023)	#328 (2023)	2 of 3	7 (2021–2023)	4 (2023)

Flora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Flora in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	387	4 of 10	97
2000s	835	10 of 10	84
2010s	1,344	10 of 10	134
2020sbusiest	933	5 of 10	187

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 187 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 83, from 144 to 227.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Flora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #102 in Scotland in 2024.

Flora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#256	190	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#230	201	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#267	171	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#220	227	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#316	144	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#291	168	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#323	147	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#293	168	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#291	171	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#305	158	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#432	101	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#426	100	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#404	116	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#412	108	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#409	107	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#407	104	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#485	81	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#447	91	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#490	78	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#432	86	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#439	81	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#441	78	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#409	80	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#399	79	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#411	77	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#380	85	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#311	115	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#342	101	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#102	42	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #102, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 227 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Flo · #1469, 21y
Florence · #6, 61y
Florentina · #2120, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Esmae · #102, 29y
Mara · #102, 30y
Caiden · #103, 29y
Amaya · #104, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Eirinn · #102, 26y
Esmae · #102, 29y
Mara · #102, 30y
Caiden · #103, 29y

Flora was ranked #102 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Flora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Flora without appearing here.

Flora moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #411 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #399 and #871.
Mina Compare
In 2020 they stood at #716 and #716 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #464 and #883.
Audrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #905 and #905 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2023 that had become #495 and #856.
Barbara Compare
In 2022 they stood at #905 and #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2023 that had become #495 and #856.

Moved ahead of Flora

Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #439 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #432 and #273.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #409 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #412 and #261.
Willow Compare
In 2000 they stood at #411 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #399 and #251.
Ava Compare
In 1999 they stood at #374 and #429 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #411 and #291.

Moved the opposite way to Flora

Laila Compare
Between 2011 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Flora went from #937 to #544 while Laila went from #240 to #352.

Moved the same way as Flora

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Flora went from #439 to #256 and Eabha from #4598 to #1262.
Sinead Compare
Between 2002 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Flora went from #512 to #905 and Sinead from #30 to #905.
Aria Compare
Between 2011 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Flora went from #937 to #544 and Aria from #695 to #72.
Aurora Compare
Between 2011 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Flora went from #937 to #544 and Aurora from #695 to #76.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #102 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Flora

Flora at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Flora across 3 official records

Flora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Flora appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Flora

Flora and the names beside it

Flora moved ahead of

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Flora at a glance

Flora across 3 official records

Flora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Flora appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Flora

Flora and the names beside it

Flora moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Flora

Moved the opposite way to Flora

Moved the same way as Flora