German : from a short form of the medieval personal name
Florentius (see Florence), the name of a saint who died
in 693, or of Florian (see also Flory).
Jewish
(Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Flor ‘array of
flowers’ or metonymic occupational name from German Flor
‘gauze’.
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