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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14 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

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 98 in 2025
Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
Girl French 92 in 2025
Suzanne Suzanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily," from shoshannah.
Girl French 75 in 2025
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 52 in 2025
Primrose Primrose is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "first rose."
Girl Latin 69 in 2025
Roisin Roisin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "little rose," from rós with a diminutive ending.
Girl Irish 64 in 2025
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 60 in 2025
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 49 in 2025
Tammy Tammy is a girl's name meaning palm tree, a pet form of Tamara.
Girl Hebrew 41 in 2025
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 40 in 2025
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 38 in 2025
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 30 in 2025
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 29 in 2025
Yves Yves is a boy's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, the wood the longbow was made from.
Boy French 26 in 2025

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