Florida

Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430 · Last seen for boys in 1918 at #4,179
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1888 · 40 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,527
since 1880

Florida over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Florida has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #380, 1888girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1994#13,4305—
1993#10,5887—
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1988#11,7985—
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1982#10,5175—
1981#7,4098—
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1979#10,2105—
1978#6,3859—
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1976#9,2845—
1975#7,9846—
1974#5,01111—
1973#7,4356—
1972#8,2925—
1971#6,6197—
1970#5,8188—
1969#5,4568—
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1966#4,8668—
1965#4,4949—
1964#6,0096—
1963#3,17616—
1962#4,01111—
1961#4,8828—
1960#2,72920—
1959#2,67819—
1958#2,86217—
1957#2,48621—
1956#3,18614—
1955#2,34122—
1954#2,45020—
1953#2,69916—
1952#2,02325—
1951#1,96825—
1950#1,47439—
1949#1,56435—
1948#1,34547—
1947#1,72231—
1946#1,97022—
1945#1,69924—
1944#1,23641—
1943#1,59128—
1942#99761—
1941#1,16641—
1940#1,01050—
1939#1,10242—
1938#1,11142—
1937#1,07044—
1936#84065—
1935#1,10140—
1934#89458—
1933#98549—
1932#96554—
1931#97051—
1930#98356—
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1928#87070—
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1924#88872—
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1918#85970#4,1795
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1914#74759—
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1912#67854—
1911#65044—
1910#64443—
1909#66236—
1908#64935—
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1892#54026—
1891#48328—
1890#49128—
1889#55521—
1888#38040—
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Florida was already there! It came in at #547, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Florida is popular in 1907

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
  • Biggest jump: 261 spots in 1936 (#1,101 → #840)
  • Biggest drop: 594 spots in 1943 (#997 → #1,591)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1888 at #380 (40 births)
  • Births halved by 1953, 65 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 57 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1880–1934
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,466
  • Highest: 1 in 4,466 girls born in 1888 were named Florida (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,151 girls born in 1994 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 21.4% of all girls named Florida (754) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s183#380 (1888)#512
1890s335#428 (1896)#495
1900s390#440 (1900)#562
1910s588#644 (1910)#765
1920s754#743 (1925)#849
1930s501#840 (1936)#1,002
1940s380#997 (1942)#1,430
1950s218#1,474 (1950)#2,417
1960s86#2,729 (1960)#4,453
1970s62#5,011 (1974)#7,449
1980s18#7,409 (1981)#9,908
1990s12#10,588 (1993)#12,009

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Florida in 1907

girls
#614
37 births · 1 in 8,610 girls

Top girls' names in 1907

  1. #1Mary17,580
  2. #2Helen7,579
  3. #3Margaret6,713
  4. #4Anna5,575
  5. #5Ruth5,573
  6. #6Dorothy4,967
  7. #7Elizabeth4,624
  8. #8Mildred4,277
  9. #9Alice4,107
  10. #10Marie3,880
  11. #614Florida37
More about 1907

girls

318,564 girls got a published name in 1907; 1 in 8,610 of them was named Florida, which outranked 74.4% of the 2,399 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Florida
  1. #601Melissa38
  2. #601Ray38
  3. #601Treva38
  4. #614Florida37
  5. #614Anastasia37
  6. #614Clementine37
  7. #614Donnie37
  8. #624Adelia36
  9. #624Beth36
  10. #624Cordie36

Tied with 9 names at #614; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,028Lota#1,951 → #923
  2. ↑ 1,028Tula#1,951 → #923
  3. ↑ 961Cleda#1,951 → #990
  4. ↑ 961Ingrid#1,951 → #990
  5. ↑ 961Santa#1,951 → #990
Fallers
  1. ↓ 926Macy#895 → #1,821
  2. ↓ 742Libbie#642 → #1,384
  3. ↓ 736Hertha#776 → #1,512
  4. ↓ 719Zadie#793 → #1,512
  5. ↓ 674Anabel#965 → #1,639

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907 →