I'm here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven't seen it mentioned yet
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Dutch: Madelief, Roos, Margriet
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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"
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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…
Leïla in persian is the Lilac flower
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.)
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.
Japan: 花 (Hana, Flower), 菫 (Sumire, violet), 蓮 (Ren, lotus), 蘭 (Ran, Orchid), 柊 (Hiiragi).
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Also in English, there's Rosa, Marigold, and Iris (though Marigold might be a color rather than a flower?)
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I don't get the question at all. Azucena, maybe?
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In German, we have Margaret(e) - translates to daisy We have Rose and some variations of it (Anne-Rose, Rosa, Rosalinde...)
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)
I know a Cambria (type of hybrid orchid).
I know multiple ladies named Heather, if you're counting flowering shrubs.
US, American English
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In France we have: Rose, Iris, Marguerite, Violette, Pétunia, Églantine, Jacinthe, Marjolaine, Capucine, Garance, Camélia, Hortense, Fleur (which litterally mean Flower)
We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I'll stick to Irish.
Róise (rowisha): Rose
Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose
That's all I've got.
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English also has Marigold and Iris.
Fleur
In Spanish it's normal to name girls Rose/Rosa. There's also Rosario for boys and girls. In English there's Rosemary, Roseanne and Rosie.
I know it's not technically a flower, but I feel like Blossom counts
In hindi: "gulabo" (rose), "kamala" (lotus), "juhi" (jasmine), "chameli" (again jasmine), "ketaki" (screwpine)
These are all i can think of rn😅
In Swedish there is Linnéa. After the Linnaea flower (Linnea in Swedish). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaea
There is also Rosa, Viola and Iris but Linnéa is probably more common.
Daisy, Daphne, Astrid, Petal, Flora, Florida, Violet, Rose
off the top of my head, but there's lits of lists of names, books even :) you can look up 'babyname book'
For Vietnamese there are quite a lot. Many flowers and names in Vietnam have multiple syllables which change the meaning of mono syllabic words and would take too long to list them out. That's why I'm gonna only list monosyllabic and common female names here:
- Đào - Peach flower
- Mai - Ochna integerrima
- Cúc - Chrysanthemum
- Liên - Lotus
- Hồng - Rose
- Hoa - Flower
- Lan - Orchid
- Huệ - Lily
- Phượng - Delonix regia
Vietnamese. "Hoa" is only one I know.
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My partners middle name is Amaryllis.
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