Flossie’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Flossie
Flossie'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 "Flossie's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Flossie: meaning and origin
Flossie is a diminutive of Florence, says Behind the Name. Florence comes from the Latin Florentius or Florentia, from florens, “prosperous, flourishing.” Many early Christian saints bore Florentius, which helped the name survive the Middle Ages. Flossie is the breezy household short form that English families clipped from Florence.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name links Flossie with Florence, Flo, Florrie and Floy among English forms. Flo is the shortest everyday clip. Florence remains the formal name on certificates when Flossie is only for home.
Famous people named Flossie
Flossie Wong-Staal, born Wong Yee Ching on August 27, 1946, and died July 8, 2020, was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. Wikipedia says she was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, a major step in proving that HIV causes AIDS, and that she held the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at UC San Diego from 1990 to 2002. She later became chief scientific officer of a biotech company she helped found.
Is Flossie a popular name?
Flossie was a turn-of-the-century nickname-name. US Social Security data has it in the top 200 in the 1880s, 1890s and 1900s, highest at 151st in the 1890s, with more than 7,200 American girls named Flossie across those decades. Behind the Name no longer lists a recent US ranking for Flossie. Like many -ie pet forms of that era, it later yielded to Florence and Flo.
Flossie trivia
Florence means flourishing. Behind the Name derives it from Latin florens, “prosperous, flourishing,” so Flossie inherits a growth metaphor rather than a flower word alone. Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, is the most famous full-name Florence; Flossie Wong-Staal shows the diminutive can stand alone at the highest levels of science.
Gift ideas that suit a Flossie
- For a science student. A lab journal for notes, dates and breakthroughs.
- For a gardener. A notebook for blooms, flourishing beds and seasons.
- For Earth Day. A green diary for plants, parks and quiet walks.
- For Christmas. A fresh holiday journal for Flossie.
How Flossie can use it
Any Flossie, 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 Flossie 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 Flossie’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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