# Florian (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/florian/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,746 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,691 / 55 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 403, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Flōriānus.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 1914 | 5 | 3,836 |
| 1915 | 5 | 4,530 |
| 1916 | 5 | 4,689 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5,401 |
| 1925 | 6 | 4,621 |
| 1926 | 7 | 4,024 |
| 1927 | 5 | 5,073 |
| 1928 | 6 | 4,375 |
| 1935 | 5 | 4,443 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,045 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,430 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,062 |
| 2014 | 16 | 5,554 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,363 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5,192 |
| 2017 | 19 | 4,990 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,516 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,317 |
| 2020 | 20 | 4,754 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,602 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,344 |
| 2023 | 37 | 3,244 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,237 |
| 2025 | 54 | 2,495 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,229 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,147 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,284 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,587 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,492 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,055 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,104 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 30 | 1,000 |
| 2025 | 36 | 873 |

## People named Florian

- Florian Wirtz, German association football player (born 2003)
- Florian Thauvin, French footballer (born 1993)
- Florian Schneider, German musician (1947–2020)
- Florian Neuhaus, German association football player (1997-)
- Florian Grillitsch, Austrian association football player
- Florian Zeller, French novelist, playwright
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter
- Florian Klein, former Austrian association football player
- Florian Kainz, Austrian association football player
- Florian Geyer, German knight,diplomat and peasant leader in the German Peasants' War
- Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, (1656-1721) Prince of Liechtenstein
- Florian Cajori, American mathematician (1859–1930)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.