FlorestafPortuguese (Brazilian, Rare), Spanish (Philippines, Rare) Transferred use of the surname Floresta. It may also occasionally be given in reference to Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto (1810-1885), better known as Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta or simply Nísia Floresta, a Brazilian educator, translator, writer, poet, philosopher, and feminist.
FloricemMedieval English, Medieval French Medieval English and French variant of Floris, from the name of a male character in the medieval romance Floris (or Florice) and Blancheflour, apparently derived from floris, Latin meaning "of flowers" or "belonging to flowers".
Florijnm & fDutch (Rare) Dutch form of Florinus (for men) and Florina (for women), but the name is most often encountered on men. It is unisex in the Netherlands, but strictly masculine in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.... [more]
FlorimmAlbanian Derived from Albanian flori "gold; gold coin, florin; golden thread; (term of affectionate address to a child) dear, honey".
FlorimelfLiterature, Theatre Combination of Latin flos meaning "flower" (genitive floris) and mel "honey". This name was first used by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590; in the form Florimell)... [more]
FlorimellfLiterature Form of Florimel used by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), in which she was a lady in love with the knight Marinell, who initially rejected her... [more]
FlorisdelfafArthurian Cycle It's origins are unknown but presumably a coinage from of the Latin flos "flower" and the Greek adelphe "sister".... [more]
FloryncefEnglish Variant form of Florence. A well-known bearer of this name was the American civil rights advocate and feminist Florynce Kennedy (1916-2000).
FloscellusmHistory (Ecclesiastical) Derived from Latin floscellus, a diminutive of flosculus (which itself is a diminutive of flos "flower, blossom"), meaning "small flower". Saint Floscellus was a young man who was martyred in the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius... [more]
FlourdelisfArthurian Cycle Flourdelis is Burbon's lover. She represents the disloyal citizens of France in Book 5, Canto 11 of "The Faerie Queene". Artegall rebukes her for letting Grantorto tempt her.
FlourefRomani A bona fide cognate of Flora, this name is derived from the Romani adjective floure "flowery".
FloweymPopular Culture Variant of Flower. In the RPG Undertale, Flowey is a sentient golden flower, the soulless reincarnation of Asriel, who tricks the player by calling his attacks "friendliness pellets".
FluffymPet, Literature In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fluffy was the monstrous guard dog.
FluoniafRoman Mythology Derives from fluo, fluere, "to flow," is a form of Juno who retains the nourishing blood within the womb. Women attended to the cult of Juno Fluonia "because she held back the flow of blood (i.e., menstruation) in the act of conception" and pregnancy... [more]
Fly-fornicationmEnglish (Puritan) Puritan name given after the first two words of 1 Corinthians 6:18 "Fly fornication", i.e. "avoid sexual inmorality".
Foixf & mCatalan From the Catalan title of the Virgin Mary, Mare de Déu de Foix, meaning "Mother of God of Foix," the name of a church located on a cliff near the headwaters of the river Foix in the Alt Penedès municipality of Torrelles de Foix, hence the heavy concentration of its usage in the comarca of Alt Penedès.
FolcburgfGermanic The first element of this name is derived from Old High German folc "people." The second element is derived from Gothic bairgan (bergan in Old High German) "to keep, to save, to preserve", or from Old High German burg "fortress."
FolcdagmGermanic Derived from Old High German folc "people" combined with daga "day."
FolcgardfGermanic The first element of this name is derived from Old High German folc "people." The second element is derived from gardan "to hedge in, to enclose, to fence in" or from Gothic gards "house, garden, (court)yard."
FolchardmGermanic Derived from the Germanic elements folk "people" and hard "brave, hardy".
FolcheremAnglo-Saxon Derived from the Old English elements folc "folk, people" and here "army". Cognate to Germanic Fulcher.
FoldacefArthurian Cycle She was the daughter of Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, who gives her as wife to Patrices (Patrick), the brother of Avenable.
FoldheiðrfOld Norse Combination of fold 'earth, plain' and heiðr 'bright, clear, cloudless'.