Meaning and Origin of: Florian

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Flowering, blooming

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian, French, Spanish (Florián), Polish, Czech and Slovak (Florián), Slovenian (Florjan, Florijan), German (Austrian), Hungarian (Flórián), and Romanian : from a medieval personal name (Latin Florianus, a further derivative of Florius); (see Fleury, borne by a 3rd-century saint who was drowned in Noricum during the persecutions of Christians under Diocletian and became the patron of Upper Austria, widely invoked as a protector from the danger of fires.