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Names That Mean Flowers & Trees

Names taken from a flower, tree or plant. The Victorian layer is almost entirely floral and almost entirely for girls; the older layer is trees, and they mark boundaries and meeting places rather than gardens.

Every name here has a researched page whose stated meaning carries this sense.

Rankings for

87 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Olivia Olivia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "olive tree," used as the feminine form of Oliver.
Girl Latin #1 in US
Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a genuinely disputed origin.
Boy Norman French #3 in US
Violet Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple," taken from viola, the Latin word for the purple flower.
Girl Latin #13 in US
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
Girl Latin #18 in US
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
Girl English #21 in US
Ella Ella is a girl's name with two distinct origins. The Norman French line derives from the Germanic element ali, meaning other or foreign, while a Hebrew line gives Ella as a word for a terebinth tree.
Girl Germanic #29 in US
Willow Willow is a girl's name of English origin naming the tree, from the Old English welig.
Girl English #44 in US
Lillian Lillian is a girl's name usually explained as an elaboration of Lily, from the Latin lilium, and sometimes as a variant of Elizabeth by way of the medieval pet form Lilian.
Girl Latin #57 in US
Leilani Leilani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "heavenly flowers" or "royal child," from lei, a garland or wreath of flowers, and lani, meaning sky, heaven, or royalty.
Girl Hawaiian #60 in US
Iris Iris is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "rainbow."
Girl Greek #61 in US
Daisy Daisy is a girl's name of English origin naming the flower, and its meaning is unusually literal: daisy comes from the Old English dægesege, "day's eye," because the flower opens its petals at dawn and closes them at dusk.
Girl English #75 in US
Liliana Liliana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," an elaborated form of Lily from lilium.
Girl Latin #78 in US
Rose Rose is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the flower, from rosa.
Girl Latin #114 in US
Magnolia Magnolia is a girl's name naming the flowering tree, which was named after Pierre Magnol, a seventeenth-century French botanist.
Girl Latin #124 in US
Oaklynn Oaklynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, combining the tree name Oak with the -lynn ending.
Girl Modern coinage #153 in US
Alani Alani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "orange tree."
Girl Hawaiian #161 in US
Rosalie Rosalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
Girl Latin #171 in US
Daphne Daphne is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "laurel tree."
Girl Greek #178 in US
Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.
Girl Latin #197 in US
Jasmine Jasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from yasmin.
Girl Persian #206 in US
Zara Zara is a girl's name with more than one origin. It is read as "radiance" or "blossom" from the Arabic zahrah, and as a form of Sarah, meaning "princess," from Hebrew — and both readings are in active use.
Girl Arabic #212 in US
Dahlia Dahlia is a girl's name taken from the flower, which was named in honor of the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
Girl Swedish #215 in US
Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.
Girl Latin #252 in US
Nash Nash is a boy's name of English origin meaning "at the ash tree".
Boy English #255 in US
Aspen Aspen is a unisex name of English origin taken from the tree, whose leaves tremble in the slightest wind.
Unisex English #266 in US
Koa Koa is a boy's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "warrior" or "brave."
Boy Hawaiian #269 in US
Rosie Rosie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
Girl Latin #283 in US
Lennox Lennox is a unisex name from a Scottish district whose name means "place of elm trees," and our data records it as unisex.
Unisex Scottish #289 in US
Poppy Poppy is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from the Latin papaver.
Girl English #292 in US
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
Girl Latin #379 in US
Briar Briar is a unisex name taken from the English word for a thorny shrub, especially wild rose or bramble.
Unisex English #400 in US
Lauren Lauren is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," which became a women's name because a film studio invented one.
Girl English #401 in US
Holly Holly is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the tree, from holegn.
Girl English #416 in US
Rowen Rowen is a unisex name with two sources. It is a variant of Rowan, the tree name and the Irish Ó Ruadháin from a word for red; and separately an English dialect word for a second crop of hay cut in the same season.
Unisex Irish #486 in US
April April is a girl's name taken from the month, whose Latin name probably means to open — the month when buds open.
Girl Latin #542 in US
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of the births in our records are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
Unisex English #561 in US
Lina Lina is a girl's name with two separate sources: an Arabic word for a young palm tree, and a European short form of names ending in -lina such as Carolina and Angelina.
Girl Arabic #572 in US
Flora Flora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "flower," the Roman goddess whose festival was among the least decorous in the calendar.
Girl Latin #607 in US
Rosa Rosa is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
Girl Latin #652 in US
Hana Hana is a girl's name with three unrelated origins: the Japanese for "flower," the Arabic for "happiness," and a Slavic and Czech form of Hannah, meaning "grace."
Girl Disputed #657 in US
Lillie Lillie is a girl's name from the flower, which has stood for purity in Christian art for so long that the association predates the name.
Girl English #676 in US
Jazmin Jazmin respells a Persian word that traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, which is why the word is near-identical in a dozen unrelated languages.
Girl American #710 in US
Laurel Laurel names the plant directly, which sets it apart from Lora and Loren on this site — those reach the laurel through a Roman town, while this one is simply the tree.
Girl English #735 in US
Zainab Zainab is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "fragrant flowering tree."
Girl Arabic #808 in US
Lilia Lilia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," and it is also a separate Arabic and Slavic name that the spelling merges.
Girl Latin #860 in US
Violette Violette is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "violet," and in France it belongs to an agent executed at Ravensbrück at twenty-three.
Girl French #894 in US
Ashlyn Ashlyn has two possible sources and they disagree completely — the Irish aisling means a dream or vision, while the English reading is simply an ash-tree clearing.
Girl American #972 in US
Jazmine Jazmine is the fourth spelling of one Persian word on this site, alongside Jasmine, Jasmin and Jazmin — yasmin traveled with the plant itself, which is why it is near-identical across a dozen languages.
Girl American #994 in US

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