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.

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87 names, most popular first in United States

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Viola Viola means violet, and it names the flower, the instrument and a Shakespeare heroine from the same Latin root.
Girl Latin #1,014 in US
Ollie Ollie is a name of Norse origin meaning "ancestor's descendant."
Unisex Norse #1,059 in US
Susan Susan is a girl's name from a Hebrew word for lily, taken in turn from an Egyptian word for lotus.
Girl Hebrew #1,090 in US
Larry Larry is a boy's name, the short form of Lawrence, from a Roman name meaning of Laurentum.
Boy Latin #1,090 in US
Yasmine Yasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin meaning "jasmine," the flower.
Girl Arabic #1,183 in US
May May has three separate sources that English cannot tell apart — the month, the hawthorn blossom that opens in it, and a short form of Mary and Margaret.
Girl English #1,230 in US
Perry Perry means at the pear tree, from an English place name — and our data marks it reviving, at 1373rd in the United States and 1681st in England and Wales.
Boy English #1,373 in US
Jasmin Jasmin names a flower whose own name is Persian, and it traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, arriving as a word and a cutting together.
Girl German #1,408 in US
Ewan Ewan is a boy's name, the anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic Eòghann, generally given as born of the yew.
Boy Scottish Gaelic #1,483 in US
Yvette Yvette is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
Girl French #1,625 in US
Lori Lori is a girl's name, a short form of Laura meaning laurel.
Girl Latin #1,732 in US
Laurence Laurence is the one name on this site that changes sex at the Channel: it is a man's name in English and a woman's name in French.
Unisex Latin #1,750 in US
Rosemarie Rosemarie looks like Rose plus Marie, and as a name it is — but the herb rosemary has nothing to do with either, and the resemblance is one of the neatest coincidences in naming.
Girl German #1,758 in US
Susie Susie means lily, shortened from Susan, and the Hebrew word was borrowed from Egyptian — where it may have named a lotus rather than a lily, which changes the flower entirely.
Girl English #1,916 in US
Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
Girl French #2,053 in US
Suzanne Suzanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily," from shoshannah.
Girl French #2,401 in US
Olivier Olivier is a boy's name usually taken as olive tree, though the character who made it famous — Roland's companion in the Song of Roland — may carry a Norse name meaning elf army instead.
Boy French #2,539 in US
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Girl Latin #2,556 in US
Roisin Roisin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "little rose," from rós with a diminutive ending.
Girl Irish #2,697 in US
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is genuinely mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Girl Latin #2,847 in US
Yolanda Yolanda means violet, and the flower reaches it through a chain of respellings — the Greek Iolanthe became Violante in Italian by association with viola, and Spanish then rendered that form as the Yolanda we know.
Girl Spanish #3,215 in US
Tammy Tammy is a girl's name meaning palm tree, a pet form of Tamara.
Girl Hebrew #3,678 in US
Camélia Camélia is a girl's name taken from the camellia, a flower Linnaeus named after a Jesuit missionary botanist called Kamel — so the name is a surname twice removed.
Girl French #3,721 in US
Ashlee Ashlee is the third spelling of one name on this site, alongside Ashleigh and Ashlyn — all descend from the Old English for an ash-tree clearing, and the ash was the tree spears were made from.
Girl American #3,860 in US
Lynda Lynda means lime tree, from Spanish and Germanic roots that disagree — the pretty reading comes from the Spanish linda, and the tree from a Germanic element, and neither is settled.
Girl American #4,568 in US
Liliane Liliane means lily, and our data marks it reviving — 753rd in France on 55 births, against 4146th in England and Wales and 4744th in the United States, so the revival is entirely French.
Girl French #4,744 in US
Eoghan Eoghan is a boy's name of Irish origin usually read as "born of the yew," and it gives County Tyrone its Irish name.
Boy Irish #5,047 in US
Ewen Ewen is a boy's name of Irish origin usually read as "born of the yew," the Scottish anglicization of Eòghann.
Boy Scottish #5,104 in US
Yves Yves is a boy's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, the wood the longbow was made from.
Boy French #5,567 in US
Laurent Laurent is a boy's name meaning from Laurentum, the French form of Lawrence.
Boy French #6,082 in US
Euan Euan is a boy's name of Irish origin usually read as "born of the yew," and it is one of three separate names that collapse into Owen in English.
Boy Scottish #6,184 in US
Ashleigh Ashleigh peaked far higher in England than in America — 1,133 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US high of 1,717, in a country with roughly a fifth of the population.
Girl English #7,116 in US
Lyna Lyna is a girl's name, a French respelling of Lina, which has both an Arabic sense of a young palm tree and a European use as a short form.
Girl French #8,120 in US
Darragh Darragh is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "oak" or "oak grove," from the Irish dair.
Boy Irish #8,874 in US
Sue Sue means lily, shortened from Susan, and it is one of the steepest falls in our data — from 5,306 American births in 1947 to 11, a decline by a factor of roughly 482.
Girl English #9,306 in US
Laverne Laverne means the alder grove, and the goddess sometimes cited for it is a poor fit — Laverna was the Roman patroness of thieves, which is not a namesake most sources mention when they list her.
Unisex French #10,845 in US
Myrtle Myrtle means the evergreen shrub, and it was the plant of Aphrodite — carried by Greek and Roman brides long before the Victorians made it a name.
Girl English #11,658 in US
Laure Laure means laurel, and the wreath was a prize rather than an ornament — Roman victors and poets wore it, which is where laureate and baccalaureate both come from.
Girl French 85,898 births
Roise Roise is a girl's name of Germanic origin, the Irish form of Rose — and Rose did not originally mean the flower at all.
Girl Irish 1,004 births

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