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Baby name
Florence
Girl
Origin of the name
Florence comes from the Latin Florentius, linked to the verb meaning “to flower, to flourish.” The nurse Florence Nightingale made it famous.
Comeback name
339,093births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 14rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Florence are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Florence is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Florence is most common in North Dakota (2.3 times), Pennsylvania (2.2) and Hawaii (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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