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What is your favorite floral name?

April showers bring May flowers, and with May flowers come floral baby names.

Flower names for girls date back as long as naming records have existed, and across nearly every culture. Flowers symbolize life and death, hope and renewal, beauty and love.

The category of flower names is quite diverse. There are the classics of course, such as Rose, Lily, and Flora. But if you ask a Berry for their ultimate guilty-pleasure name, you will get one-of-a-kind responses like Chrysanthemum, Tigerlily, and Hyacinth.

If you widen your horizons, there are thousands of stunning floral names used across the world, such as Czech Fiala meaning “violet”, Spanish Liliosa meaning “lily”, and today’s featured Nameberry of the Day, Hawaiian Nanala meaning “sunflower”.

So without further ado, let’s vote for your favorite floral in each of these distinct and lovely categories.

Popular Flower Names

The most popular floral name in the US today is Violet at #20. In the UK, this title is held by Lily at #7. Sweet and simple, with a long history of use, you can’t go wrong with any of these classics. Vote for your favorite of the most popular flower names in the States, below.

Vintage Flower Names

Following the 100-year rule, in the 1924 top baby names we see familiar faces like Rose, Violet, and Daisy. But you would be hard-pressed to find a little Myrtle today. Vote for your favorites of these vintage floral names — all found in the 1924 charts — that are wonderfully rare today.

Gender-Neutral Flower Names

Not all flower names are all frills and hyper-femininity. There is a growing number of gender-neutral flower names that are on the rise for all genders. Briar for example — associated with the princess Briar Rose from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale — now charts for both boys and girls.

Extravagant Flower Names

If frills are more your forte, we’ve got you covered there too. My favorite thing about these elaborate and girly names is the plethora of nickname options they often come with. Marigold is stunning in its entirety, but she could also go by Mari, Margo, or Goldie. Primrose could be Prim, Rosie, or even Posie. How cute!

International Flower Names

This could be its own entirely separate newsletter — there are thousands and thousands of stunning floral names from languages and cultures around the world. Here are a few of our favorites.

So what did we miss? Share your favorite floral baby name in the comments!