90+ Prettiest Floral Baby Girl Names

Flower names have been given to baby girls for as long as people have been naming babies.

And the reason is simple. Flowers are beautiful. They bloom and they fade and they come back again. They smell like specific memories. They grow in the most unlikely places. There is not a better thing to name a person after.

But there is a whole world of floral names beyond Rose and Lily and Violet. Names from wildflowers and climbing plants and old botanical traditions that sound extraordinary on a baby girl and even better on a grown woman. Names that most parents have never even thought of.

Here are 93 of them.

The Classics Done Right

Rose. Lily. Violet. Daisy.

Everyone knows these names and there is a reason for that. They are genuinely beautiful. They have been working for centuries and they will keep working long after every trend has come and gone.

If you love a classic floral name there is absolutely no reason to look further. A well chosen classic beats an unusual name every single time.

1. Rose
2. Lily
3. Violet
4. Daisy
5. Iris
6. Poppy
7. Ivy
8. Flora
9. Fleur
10. Blossom

Wildflower Names That Feel Completely Fresh

Wildflowers have a different energy from garden flowers.

They are not planted. They are not arranged. They just appear in hedgerows and meadows and along roadsides in a way that feels completely free. And the names that come from that tradition carry the same quality. Natural without trying. Beautiful without being precious.

11. Briar
12. Clover
13. Thistle
14. Foxglove
15. Bryony
16. Sorrel
17. Tansy
18. Yarrow
19. Eglantine — the wild rose of medieval poetry, climbing and free
20. Columbine — meaning dove, a wildflower with centuries of literary history
21. Larkspur
22. Meadowsweet
23. Woadwaxen
24. Teasel
25. Vetch

Garden Flower Names Beyond the Obvious

If you love flower names but want something less expected than the top ten, this is where to look.

These are the names from proper old English gardens. The kind of garden with a wall around it and things growing that most people cannot name on sight. Beautiful and specific and genuinely original on a baby girl right now.

26. Wisteria
27. Camellia
28. Clematis
29. Verbena
30. Zinnia
31. Amaryllis
32. Delphinium
33. Hollyhock
34. Lupin
35. Peony
36. Dahlia
37. Aster
38. Cosmos
39. Phlox
40. Salvia
41. Nigella
42. Aquilegia
43. Alstroemeria
44. Freesia
45. Celosia

Tree Blossom Names

Some of the most beautiful flowers in the world grow on trees.

Cherry blossom. Apple blossom. Hawthorn in May. The names that come from flowering trees carry that same quality of something extraordinary that happens for a short time and makes everything around it feel different while it does.

46. Blossom
47. Cherry
48. Hawthorn
49. Acacia
50. Mimosa
51. Magnolia
52. Jacaranda
53. Cassia
54. Redbud
55. Catalpa

Flower Names From Other Languages

English is not the only language that has given flowers to babies as names.

French and Italian and Spanish and Japanese flower names carry a completely different sound from English ones. The same concept, the same beauty, but filtered through a different language and a different tradition. And on an English speaking baby right now they feel genuinely original.

56. Soleil — French for sunflower and sun, warm and luminous
57. Fleur — French for flower, simple and completely lovely
58. Marguerite — French for daisy, long and elegant
59. Violette — French form of Violet, softer and more unusual
60. Camille — French, connected to the camomile flower
61. Fiore — Italian for flower
62. Fiorella — Italian diminutive, meaning little flower
63. Primavera — Italian for spring, the season of flowers
64. Sakura — Japanese for cherry blossom
65. Hana — Japanese for flower
66. Hanako — Japanese, meaning flower child
67. Sumire — Japanese for violet
68. Hinagiku — Japanese for daisy
69. Ayame — Japanese for iris
70. Nadira — Arabic, meaning rare flower

Herb and Botanical Names With Floral Qualities

Not every botanical name is a straightforward flower name.

Herbs and plants and botanical terms that carry a softness and a beauty that sits right alongside the classic flower names. These are the names that feel floral without being obviously so. The ones that make people think for a moment before they realize why the name feels the way it does.

71. Sage
72. Rosemary
73. Lavender
74. Saffron
75. Rue
76. Myrtle
77. Fern
78. Juniper
79. Calla
80. Calyx — the outer part of a flower, original and beautiful as a name
81. Petal
82. Brier
83. Frond
84. Tendril
85. Garland

The Final Eight

86. Elowen. Cornish for elm tree, which is not a flower but carries the same quiet botanical beauty. Soft, ancient, almost completely unused. For a daughter who will grow slowly and stand for a long time.
87. Hyacinth. The flower and the myth behind it both. A boy loved by Apollo, turned into a flower after his death. The name is bold and beautiful and carries real history inside it.
88. Amaryllis. From the Greek pastoral poets who used it for their most beautiful heroines. Long and musical and genuinely extraordinary on a baby girl today.
89. Eglantine. The wild rose of medieval poetry. Climbing and free and found everywhere in old English verse. Completely original as a name right now and one of the most beautiful sounds on this entire list.
90. Wisteria. The climbing flower that turns entire walls purple in May. Long and soft and impossible to forget. Nobody else will have it.
91. Camellia. Warm and elegant. Cami as a nickname makes it immediately accessible. The full name carries something quietly extraordinary.
92. Columbine. Meaning dove. A wildflower with a long literary history and one of the most underused beautiful names in English. Original without being strange.
93. Nigella. From the botanical name Nigella damascena, the love-in-a-mist flower. Unusual and soft and completely lovely. The kind of name people hear once and immediately wish they had thought of first.

Wrapping It Up

Flower names work because they connect your daughter to something real and beautiful and lasting.

Flowers come back every year. They outlast everything around them. They grow in places nobody expected them to. All of that is in the name before your daughter has done a single thing to earn it.

Go through the ones that felt right. Say them out loud. Some of these names are completely different when spoken than when read and you need to hear them to know if they are yours.

The right one will bloom when you find it.