SOURCE RECORD
The record for Florida
Florida is independently recorded as a personal name. Latin florida is a grammatical form associated with flowering, and Florida also has a geographical history.
The consulted lexical material does not establish whether this personal name came through that adjective, a saint’s name or the place name.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
People with the name Florida
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Florida M. Bautista
Filipino film director
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Florida M. Bautista
THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Florida in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
FLORIDACSV record 2,203 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
Linked name entries
Wikidata
Source labels on the name entries
These are the name items identified by the linked people’s given-name claims. Their source labels are shown above, including other scripts where recorded.
Source snapshot: · CC0
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Florida in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Florida
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Floria·Flora + ia, or the feminine of Florio
- Florido·As a Spanish word: having flowers or flowering
- Florita♀Affectionate form of Flora
- Farida·Feminine of Arabic Farid: unique or precious
- Flora♀Flowers, through the Roman goddess Flora
- Florian·From Florianus, a derivative of the flower-name Florus
- Florin♂Romanian continuation of Florinus
- Loida♀Spanish form of the biblical name Lois
What rhymes with Florida?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Florida further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q20000193 — Florida (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Florida M. Bautista (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q20000193 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- University of Chicago, Logeion morphology — florida / floridus (opens in a new tab)
University Latin morphology page identifies florida under floridus, in bloom; lexical morphology only.