Flossie

Where Flossie comes from

The dictionaries list Flossie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Florence — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #317 among girls — 25 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #129
    292 babies named Flossie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #616.
  4. 1947
    Flossie Wong-Staal born
    American virologist
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Flora.
Namesakes
  • Flossie Wong-Staal · American virologist, 1947–2020

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.