Comments for FLORA:

Flora is the name of the heroine in the novel "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons.

-- Anonymous User  12/20/2005

I love this name so much because it means flower and makes me think of spring. Very pretty sounding as well.

-- iwant2baurora  12/20/2005

Flora Tristan was one of the founders of modern feminism and Paul Gauguin's grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine-Therèse-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso.

-- Anonymous User  12/22/2005

In Sweden Flora is the word used for a lexicon about plants, and in general for vegetation.
Flora is also the brand name of a type of margarine.

-- Anonymous User  12/22/2005

Flora was one of three good fairies in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty."

-- breakofday  12/29/2005

Flora MacDonald famously hid Bonnie Prince Charlie on the Isle of Skye when he was fleeing his pursuers. Flora is quite a popular name in Scotland.

-- Ebba  2/20/2006

Flora would be a great name for a cat.

-- Anonymous User  2/23/2006

Beautiful name. Reminds me of the darling daughter in Moll Flanders. A great, fairyish name.

-- nothingshortoftragic  12/12/2006

Though it has terrible connotations.
Aunt Flo.
Enough said.

-- nothingshortoftragic  1/26/2007

I don't know why, but I don't like this name. Which is weird, considering I love Moira, Laura, Zora, Nora and my eldest daughter's name, Leonora.

-- QueenieCapulet  2/15/2007

I really like this name, elegant, simple, and lush. It can be used as a nickname for Florence as well.

-- Kitten  4/6/2007

In Scotland the name became popular as an Anglicised form of the Gaelic name Fionnghuala and its variants. Flora MacDonald's given name was actually Fionnghal.

-- reniannen17  7/24/2007

Flora is the heroine in Stella Gibbons' book Cold Comfort Farm, which was made into a film with Kate Beckinsale as Flora.

-- Anonymous User  11/16/2007

Only this name sounds like that butter.

-- Anonymous User  11/19/2007

I love this name, I just wish there wasn't a butter called Flora because that will be the first association for a lot of people.

-- Sezzers  11/30/2007

As long as you don't have another daughter named Fauna, and as long as you don't call the girl Flo, this name is alright. It rhymes with the very common Laura and Norah, and it also rhymes with the beautiful names Cora and Dora, and it has a soft, pleasant sound to it. It's quite old-fashioned and a bit too flower-y in a very literal way, but it's not bad.

-- slight night shiver  5/25/2008

I do believe that "Flora" is the name of the little, angelic girl in Henry James' "Turn of the Screw".

-- BlackMartian923  1/31/2009

There is a very nice song by Enya called Flora's Secret.

-- Anonymous User  2/16/2009

Flora is the name of the Countess De Lave in George Cukor's all-female 1939 movie "The Women".

-- alberto  3/4/2009

The German pronunciation is FLO-rah. [noted -ed]

-- mafiosa  8/6/2009

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