Floretta

Where Floretta comes from

Floretta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1822
    Floretta Allen Curtiss born
    American botanist and phycologist
  2. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1908
    Peak, #939
    18 babies named Floretta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1910
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,935.
  5. 1974
    Floretta Boonzaier born
    South African psychologist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Floretta Boonzaier · South African psychologist, born 1974
  • Floretta Allen Curtiss · American botanist and phycologist, 1822–1899

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.