Fleur

Where Fleur comes from

French fleur (“flower”), name of a character in Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga.
— Wiktionary's entry for Fleur
  • French
Along the way
  1. 1926
    First appearance
    #3,873 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #3,753
    6 babies named Fleur — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French in quiet use since the 1920s.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.