Flora was a fertility goddess of flowers and springtime in Ancient Rome.

Feminine variants include Florrie or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent Flòraidh.

[1] Other feminine variants include the Dutch Floor and Floortje, the English and French Florence, the French Fleur, Flore, and Florette, the Hungarian Flóra, the Italian Fiore and Fiorenza, the Occitan Flòra, the Sami Florá, the Portuguese and Spanish Flor and Florinda, the Spanish Florencia, and the Portuguese Florência, and the Welsh Fflur.

It has again risen in use in recent years and has been among the one thousand most used names for American girls since 2019.

[4] It is among the top 150 names for newborn girls in Canada, where it ranked 124th on the popularity chart in 2021, with 211 uses.