About the Flower Surname

Behind the Flower surname stands Flowers, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. The family name meaning is “Arrow maker, or a flower”, the same as for Flowers.

Heraldry and the Flower name

Arms linked to Flowers and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

Flower drops the “s” of Flowers, a shortening that clerks often made. You may also find the name written Flore.

In the 2010 US Census, 3,711 Americans gave Flower as their last name (rank 8,828). French birth records list 129 children named Flower between 1891 and 2000. Get the complete Flower report, with a museum-style coat of arms.