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Baby Name Flora |
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| Meaning of Flora - What does the name Flora means? |
| Pronunciation: |
| flor-ah |  |
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Girl Name |
| Origin: |
Scottish |
| Name Meaning: |
Used in Scotland as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Fionnaghuala (white shoulders). See Fionnaghuala. Flora is derived from the Latin AIon's (a flower). The name was borne by Flora Macdonald (1722-90), a daughter of Ranald Macdonald of Milton. It was she who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie disguise himself as a woman and escape to the island of Skye after his defeat at Culloden in 1746 |
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English, German, Hungarian, Irish, Mythology and Astrology, Scottish |
| Pet forms: | Florrie; Floraigh (Gaelic) |
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