So far, I have Magnolia, Rose, Violet/Violeta, Petunia, Lily, and Daisy for English, though Violeta is Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Portuguese according to the Wikipedia.
I’m here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet
Dutch: Madelief, Roos, Margriet
Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne
Dutch is just English with a broken jaw
That sounds like good enough reason for the orange-man to invade the Netherlands.
“Why do they have rights over the Netherlands anyways? They got troops in the Netherlands a few hundreds of years ago, but we have troops over there too!”
Very common in Brazil: Rosa, Margarida, Jasmim/Yasmin, Lívia, Íris.
ps: Margarida is Daisy and Lívia is Lily.
In Spanish and Portuguese there is literally “Florinda”
I gotta say, knowing of two Violets in my life, that is probably my favorite name.
Leïla in persian is the Lilac flower
Portuguese: Rosa, Margarida (Daisy), Floribela (“beautiful flower”), Dália (Dhalia), Íris, Violeta, Jasmim, Magnólia, Flor (literally “flower”), Gardénia, Hortência (Hydrangea), Florência, Liliana (from Lily), Jacinta (Hyacinth). I know personally women with all but four of these names.
This in Portuguese, where I currently live, but I have no reason to believe you won’t find them in Brazil or other Portuguese speaking countries as well…
What I can think of in German: Rose, Erika, Jasmin, Iris (maybe Viola but that’s not really the commonly used name for the flower)
Japan: 花 (Hana, Flower), 菫 (Sumire, violet), 蓮 (Ren, lotus), 蘭 (Ran, Orchid), 柊 (Hiiragi).
What about Sakura? Isn’t that a name too?
Yes, Sakura is also a girl’s name.
In France some common ones are Rose, Iris, Capucine (Nasturtium), Hortense (Hydrangea), Marguerite (Daisy), Violette, Azalée (Azalea), Camélia, Fleur (Flower), Lilas (Lilac). There’s way more than that but those are the ones that come to mind.
I don’t get the question at all. Azucena, maybe?
Oops, girl’s names named after flowers
lol I wasn’t so far from the tree, then. Yeah, Azucena is a girl name in spanish.
In German, we have Margaret(e) - translates to daisy We have Rose and some variations of it (Anne-Rose, Rosa, Rosalinde…)
I’m sure someone else will cover the big ones for the US but I just want to chime in that my son’s classmate is named Cattleya. (It’s a type of orchid.)
Also in English, there’s Rosa, Marigold, and Iris (though Marigold might be a color rather than a flower?)
Marigold is a flower — e.g. marsh marigolds :)
Buttercup, Hyacinth?
Here a few in Finnish:
- Kanerva (heather)
- Kielo (lily)
- Vuokko (anemone)
- Ruusu (rose)
- Kukka (flower)
- Lemmikki (forget-me-not)
- Orvokki (violet)
- Vanamo (Linnaea borealis)
