Flôwer

surname · Latin script

Flôwer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,711 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour.

  • USUnited States1 in 90K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K
  • NONorway1 in 547K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,711 people, 2010

Record sources
94 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Flôwer: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Flôwer
  1. Middle Englishflour(measured from records)
  2. Anglo-Normanflur(measured from records)
  3. Latinflōrem(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Italic*flōs(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₃-“to thrive“to thrive, bloom”(measured from records)

From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour. Partly displaced native Old English blostma, whence Modern English blossom.

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Flôwer is found

(measured from records)

Flôwer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Flôwer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,7111 in 90K3.8K—54
ES Spain201 in 2.5M20—12
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——
SE Sweden111 in 928K11—1
NO Norway101 in 547K10—1
NL Netherlands91 in 1.9M9—3

3,711 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Flôwer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel

    Also written Fľowëř, Fĺòwèř, Flöwer, Flower, Flöwęr

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Flôwer under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Flôwer mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Flôwer?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Flôwer, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Flôwer most common?
Flôwer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 90 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Flôwer?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,711 people named Flôwer in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Flôwer” — ranked 8136th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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