Florence
Florence is ranked 435th among girls in 2024 (711 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1890–1892, 1898–1899.
- Rank in 2024
- #435up 87 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7110.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 191811,318 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1890
- Since 1880
- 339,743people given the name
The story in the numbers
338,289 girls have been named Florence in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 11,318 births — 0.98% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 711 births in 2024, against 11,318 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 61 of them in the top 100 and 20 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,454 boys have also been given it, 0.43% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Florence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16,699 | |
| 1890s | 32,345 | |
| 1900s | 36,191 | |
| 1910s | 81,465 | |
| 1920s | 88,295 | |
| 1930s | 37,940 | |
| 1940s | 20,394 | |
| 1950s | 10,598 | |
| 1960s | 5,081 | |
| 1970s | 2,227 | |
| 1980s | 1,272 | |
| 1990s | 829 | |
| 2000s | 600 | |
| 2010s | 1,828 | |
| 2020s | 2,525 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Florence was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Florence
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Agnespeak 1918
- Altapeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Gertrudepeak 1917
- Floypeak 1918
- Althapeak 1917
- Hesterpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.