Florrie Redford was an English footballer and nurse. She played for Dick, Kerr Ladies, one of England's earliest professional women's association football teams. She was a leading goal scorer for the club in 1921, when she scored a total of 170 goals. In later life she worked as a nurse in Canada, returning to the team briefly in 1938.
Florence Arnold, better known as Florrie, is an English pop singer-songwriter, drummer and model. Closely associated with the Xenomania production house, since joining as their in-house drummer in 2008 she has played live and on record for popular artists such as Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys.
Florrie was a really common nickname in Victorian and Edwardian England and was also used as a nickname for the name Florissa too which is an elaboration of the name Flora or a variant of Florence and is sometimes used in Dutch as a female version of the boys name floris. I think Florissa and Florrie the nickname are lovely and certainly gives out an ornate Edwardian vibe.
I like Florrie but not as a first name, I wish there was something more sophisticated to use as a first name with this being the nickname. Unfortunately, I don’t like the names that use this nickname.
― Anonymous User 8/7/2018
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A famous bearer is Florrie Fisher, a motivational speaker in the '60s and '70s who would travel to various high schools and talk about her former life as a prostitute and heroin addict. She became a bit of a cult figure, due to her iconic Brooklyn accent, distinctive appearance, and exaggerated tales of her past. However, she faded into obscurity in the '80s. Nobody really knows what happened to her. Today, she's most famous for being the inspiration of the character Jerri Blank from the cult TV show 'Strangers With Candy'. Either way, this is a cutesy name. It's best as a nickname, though.