Floris
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Latin Floris/Florus, related to flos ‘flower’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/floː.rəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Floris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 838K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Floris/Florus, related to flos ‘flower’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Floris is read(measured from records)
Floris is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Dutch35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Floris in Dutch.
- English28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Floris in English.
- French13%
From Latin Floris/Florus, related to flos ‘flower’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Origine latine, « fleur ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- German5.9%
männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, der auf den gldchlautenden römischen Bei namen, eine Abldtung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Floris, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Floris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #264 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 12K | Floris | 141 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Floris | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 765 | Floris | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 101 | Floris | 73 |
| US United States | — | 397 | 1 in 838K | 492 | Floris | 133 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 83 | Floris | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Floris | 3 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)
Floris is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, sobrenome sardo; forma plural de Flori
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, second-person plural present indicative of florir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive singular of flōs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Floris I, Count of Hollandb. 1025NLDutch noble (1025-1061)
- Floris II, Count of Hollandb. 1091DECount of Holland
- Floris the Blackb. 1115NL1115 - 26 Oct 1132
- Floris IIIb. 1141NLCount of Holland from 1157 to 1190
- Floris IV, Count of Hollandb. 1210NLCount of Holland from 1222 to 1234
- Floris de Voogdb. 1228BEDutch ruler
- Floris V, Count of Hollandb. 1254NLCount of Holland from 1256 to 1296
- Floris van Dyckb. 1575NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1575-1651)
- Floris Adriaan van Hallb. 1791NLDutch politician (1791-1866)
- Floris van Oranje-Nassau, van Vollenhovenb. 1975NLyoungest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 492 | #46,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 294 | #67,126 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 101 | #15,416 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 88 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 83 | #12,767 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Floris mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Floris/Florus, related to flos ‘flower’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Floris a male or female name?
- Floris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Floris?
- In the etymology graph, Florencio, Florent and Fiorenzo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Floris?
- A machine transcription gives /floː.rəs/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Floris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Floris in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled floris.
- How common is the name Floris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 397 people named Floris in 2020, about 1 in 838 thousand residents.
- How common is Floris compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Floris is the 264th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Floris?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/florisThe 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, “Floris” — the 264th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.