Names related to Flora: Fleur, Flo, Flossie, Flor

Flora

Pronunciation: FLOH-rə (key)

Origin of the name Flora:

Derived from the Latin floris (a flower). The name is borne in Roman mythology by the goddess of flowers and spring.

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Flora is one of my all-time favorite names, but when I was pregnant my husband, who was British, nixed it because it was a brand of margarine in England.

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Flo, Florita, Flossie

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Flora MacDonald, 18th-century Scottish folk hero

Flora in song, story & screen: | Edit

Flora in Main Street; Flora is one of Babar's daughters; Flora Plum (Jodie Foster movie); Flora Poste (played by Kate Beckinsale) in Cold Comfort Farm (novel and film); Flora is one of the precocious but possibly possessed young charges in Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"

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