Meaning and formation
Flores means “flowers” in Spanish, from flores, the plural of flor. Besides this flower-based byname, a separate Spanish explanation connects Flores with Flórez, a surname influenced by the spelling of the flower word. The Philippine Catálogo alfabético de apellidos of 1849 includes Flores on printed page 49.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ˈfloɾes/ · /ˈploɾes/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /ˈfloː.ɾɛs/ · /ˈploɾes/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /ˈfloɾes/ · Wiktionary ↗
In the 1849 Catálogo transcription
The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.
- flores · page 49 · column 5 · row 38 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Flores has 44 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts