Flora’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Flora
Flora's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Flora's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Flora: meaning and origin
Flora comes from the Latin flos, meaning “flower”, says Behind the Name. Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr, the west wind. It has been a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France, and in Scotland it was sometimes used for the Gaelic Fionnghuala.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Flo, Floretta, Florrie, Florry, Floy and Floella as English diminutives, with Fleur and Flore in French and Fiore in Italian.
Famous people named Flora
Flora MacDonald was born in 1722 on South Uist, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Wikipedia says she is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart escape government troops after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, with the prince disguised as an Irish maid called Betty Burke. She was held in the Tower of London, later moved to North Carolina in 1773, and returned to Scotland.
Is Flora a popular name?
Flora was a late-1800s favorite. US Social Security data has it at 75th in the 1880s and 96th in the 1890s, and it stayed in the top 200 through the 1920s, when nearly 14,000 American girls were named Flora. Wikipedia says it has been back in the top 1,000 since 2019.
Flora trivia
Ancient Rome threw Flora a party every spring. Wikipedia says the Floralia was held in her honor on April 27, or April 28 in the Julian calendar, and included the Games of Flora, which lasted six days under the empire. Ovid wrote that hares and goats were released as part of the festivities.
Gift ideas that suit a Flora
- For a gardener. A planting journal for a name that means “flower”.
- For a spring birthday. A notebook for an April or May celebration.
- For a trip to Scotland. A travel journal for the Hebrides.
- For Mother’s Day. A gift with flowers on the cover and in the name.
How Flora can use it
Any Flora, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Flora can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Flora’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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