Flossie

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · Last seen for boys in 1938 at #3,534
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1891 · 292 births
Debut · girls
25 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
21,808
since 1880

Flossie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Flossie has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #129, 1891girls
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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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2020#12,1427—
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1987#9,8256—
1986#9,5456—
1985#10,6775—
1984——
1983#10,2755—
1982#9,2376—
1981——
1980#6,31910—
1979#7,3138—
1978#7,6497—
1977#6,3409—
1976#6,6118—
1975#5,51610—
1974#4,72012—
1973#5,19110—
1972#5,10910—
1971#3,94315—
1970#4,24613—
1969#3,46116—
1968#3,45615—
1967#3,08517—
1966#2,58622—
1965#1,85438—
1964#2,15131—
1963#1,86739—
1962#2,03133—
1961#1,83839—
1960#1,52353—
1959#1,61745—
1958#1,55747—
1957#1,31665—
1956#1,24969—
1955#1,30959—
1954#1,21368—
1953#1,22562—
1952#1,08076—
1951#98889—
1950#97187—
1949#868102—
1948#773123—
1947#787121—
1946#791108—
1945#717108—
1944#616141—
1943#620149—
1942#585159—
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1939#511171—
1938#489184#3,5345
1937#459204—
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1935#413249—
1934#386276—
1933#375292—
1932#386289—
1931#376292—
1930#341366—
1929#333375#3,2477
1928#335397—
1927#330418#4,2105
1926#315445#4,2015
1925#311455—
1924#309467—
1923#288505#4,2395
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1920#280544—
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1918#267564#4,1795
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1915#244582#3,8255
1914#230538—
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1911#208339—
1910#178387—
1909#175343—
1908#176340—
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1905#147406—
1904#161338—
1903#166297—
1902#157330—
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1900#158368—
1899#169265—
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1897#162278—
1896#149315—
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1894#146297—
1893#140296—
1892#134301—
1891#129292—
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Flossie was already there! It came in at #317, and was given to 25 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Flossie is popular in 1889

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Flossie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
  • Biggest jump: 81 spots in 1883 (#306 → #225)
  • Biggest drop: 103 spots in 1950 (#868 → #971)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1891 at #129 (292 births)
  • Births halved by 1944, 53 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 72 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 72 yrs · run 1880–1951
Share of babies · girls
1 in 635
  • Highest: 1 in 635 girls born in 1891 were named Flossie (0.16%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 22.9% of all girls named Flossie (5,001) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s924#149 (1889)#229
1890s2,890#129 (1891)#149
1900s3,410#147 (1905)#163
1910s5,001#178 (1910)#236
1920s4,618#280 (1920)#308
1930s2,524#341 (1930)#419
1940s1,319#550 (1940)#687
1950s667#971 (1950)#1,253
1960s303#1,523 (1960)#2,385
1970s102#3,943 (1971)#5,664
1980s38#6,319 (1980)#9,313
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s0——
2020s12#12,142 (2020)#13,668

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.

Flossie in 1889

girls
#149
221 births · 1 in 807 girls

Top girls' names in 1889

  1. #1Mary11,648
  2. #2Anna5,062
  3. #3Elizabeth3,058
  4. #4Margaret2,917
  5. #5Emma2,884
  6. #6Minnie2,624
  7. #7Florence2,465
  8. #8Ethel2,463
  9. #9Bessie2,343
  10. #10Clara2,319
  11. #149Flossie221
More about 1889

girls

178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 807 of them was named Flossie, which outranked 89.9% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Flossie
  1. #146Mable231
  2. #147Alta226
  3. #147Janie226
  4. #149Flossie221
  5. #150Ina209
  6. #150Ola209
  7. #152Lucille208
Biggest movers since 1888
Risers
  1. ↑ 635Hellen#1,276 → #641
  2. ↑ 569Diana#1,136 → #567
  3. ↑ 536Hope#1,136 → #600
  4. ↑ 519Adelle#1,276 → #757
  5. ↑ 519Ova#1,276 → #757
Fallers
  1. ↓ 667Zilpha#612 → #1,279
  2. ↓ 643Lular#636 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 616Dagmar#663 → #1,279
  4. ↓ 589Savanah#690 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 555Harry#724 → #1,279

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

See the top 100 for 1889 →