Floret
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fluɾɛt/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Floret is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Floret 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 148 | Floret | 186 |
| BR Brazil | 125 | 1 in 1.7M | 125 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Floret | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | Floret | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Floret | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Floret is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of flōreō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, foil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, tanak mač s kuglicom na vrhu
as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)
In Basque, O izpiritü floret / thürbarazionez bethia . Mustafa 181 (ap. DRA , que interpreta 'débil') .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Floretes muiža, kas atradās Rīgas apriņķa Doles pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Paul Floretb. 1847FRFrench official (1847-1936)
- Paul Coste-Floretb. 1911FRFrench politician (1911–1979)
- Gilles Floretb. 1966FRFrench soft rock singer and German studies academic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 265 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 259 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 217 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 215 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 202 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 201 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 183 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 161 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 130 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 125 | #53,430 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Floret?
- In Portuguese /fluɾɛt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Floret have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Floret in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled floret.
- How common is the name Floret?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 125 people named Floret, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Floret?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/floretThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Floret”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.