Flora
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
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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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Global Popularity of the Name Flora
- #36 in Hungary
- #257 in Scotland
- #470 in Canada (Quebec)
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