Florina

Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman.
Source: Seror, Simon "Les noms des femmes juives en Angleterre au Moyen Âge".

Also Gascon: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=300 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans

Usages: Hungarian

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Source: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florina

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(Information from name #348146 originally submitted by user epresvanilia)

Florina is also in use in the Portuguese-speaking world (primarily Brazil) and the German-speaking world as well as in the following countries: Croatia, Hungary and Italy. The name is rare in all of the aforementioned, but out of all of them, the prevalence seems to be highest in the Portuguese-speaking world.

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In Italy, this name can also be a diminutive of Flora, as -ina is an Italian feminine diminutive suffix:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diminutives_by_language#Italian (in English)

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Known bearers of this name include the Brazilian singer and television presenter Florina Fernandez (b. 1964) and the German dancer Florina Gillnik, who was born in 1958 as Florentine Elisabeth Schuchert.

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See also:

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- https://actacroatica.com/en/name/Florina/ (in English)
- https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_(nome) (in Italian; mentions Florina)
- https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florina (in Hungarian)
- https://archiv.katolikus.hu/szentek2/NEVEK/00000007.HTM#F (in Hungarian; scroll down to the entry for Florina)
- http://www.baby-vornamen.de/Maedchen/F/Fl/Florina/ (in German)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florina_Gillnik (in German)
- https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florina_Fernandez (in Portuguese)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Florina&last=&search=Zoeken
* https://br.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Florina/+/br-0-Brazili%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Brazil)
* https://hr.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Florina/+/hr-0-Kroati%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Croatia)
* https://de.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Florina/+/de-0-Duitsland (lists only bearers living in Germany)
* https://hu.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Florina/+/hu-0-Hongarije (lists only bearers living in Hungary)
* https://it.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Florina/+/it-0-Itali%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Italy)
- Brazil: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3ABrazil
- Croatia: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3ACroatia
- Germany: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3AGermany
- Hungary: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3AHungary
- Italy: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3AItaly
- Portugal: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AFlorina%20%2Brecord_country%3APortugal
- https://www.facebook.com/search/people/?q=Florina (it's hard to find them among the Romanian bearers, who dominate the search results - best to use the name together with an extremely common surname).

Florina is *also* used in Spain and The Netherlands as the feminine form of Florinus. [noted -ed]