girls:
21.8k births since 1880
#976 (83rd percentile)
boys:
37 births since 1915
#4549 (1st percentile)
overall:
21.8k births since 1880
#1726 (78th percentile)
The name Flossie is the #1,726 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,845 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #976 (82.9% percentile) for all time with 21,808 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,549 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1915.
Flossie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys). Birth data for Flossie is available in 108 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (108 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Flossie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Flossie reached its peak popularity in 1905, achieving the 61.2% percentile (ranked #139) with 1,310 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 1,486 births per million (ranked 58.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Flossie ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Flossie reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #529) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Flossie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Flossie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Flossie is pronounced as FLAW-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FLAH-see, at 38.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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