Florian (name)

Florian is a masculine given name borrowed from the ancient Roman name Florianus. The name is derived from Florus,^[1] from Latin flōrus "(originally) yellow, blond; (later) flowering" (related to flāvus "yellow, blond"; compare also Romanian flor "blond, with reddish-blond hair"), although by popular etymology it is often linked to flōs (genitive singular flōris) "flower". It is the name of the patron saint of Poland and Upper Austria.

Florian is a common name in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Masculine variants and related names

Masculine variants

• Florian German, Polish, French (from Italian or German)
• Floriano Italian and Portuguese
• Florianus Latin
• Florián Spanish
• Flórián Hungarian

Related names

• Floriane French
• Florencio Spanish
• Fiorino Italian
• Florin Albanian, Romanian
• Florinus Latin
• Florus Latin
• Flurin Romansch^[2]
• Флор (Flor) Russian

Given name

• Saint Florian (died ca. 304), a Christian saint, and the patron saint of Poland
• Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, Florian Abel was a painter in the middle of the 16th century
• Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (1656–1721), the Prince of Liechtenstein
• Florian Abrahamowicz (born 1961), an Austrian-born priest who has been superior of the Society of St. Pius X in Italy
• Florian Andrighetto (born 1953), an Australian politician
• Florian Armstrong (born 1971), Birth name of Dido, a popular British singer
• Florian Bague (born 1984), a French football goalkeeper
• Florian Ballhaus (born 1965), a German cinematographer who has worked on several recent major Hollywood releases
• Florian Balmer (born 1979), an independent software developer living in Switzerland
• Florian Bellanger (born 1968), a French Pastry Chef living in USA, judge on Food Network TV show "Cupcake Wars"
• Florian Berisha (born 1990), a Kosovan football midfielder
• Florian Bertmer, a German illustrator from the Hardcore punk, grindcore and metal scene
• Florian Biesik (born 1849), created a literary standard for the Wymysorys language, trying to prove it did not derive from German origin
• Florian Bollen, chairman of Great Wheel Corporation and Singapore Flyer Pte. Ltd.
• Florian Boucansaud (born 1981), a French professional football defender
• Florian Brandner, a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
• Florian Bruns (born 1979), a German football midfielder
• Florian Côté (1929–2002), a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Florian Cajori (born 1859), one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day
• Florian Cazalot (born 1985), a rugby union player, who plays as prop or hooker for Section Paloise
• Florian Ceynowa (1817–1881), doctor, political activist, writer, linguist
• Florian Chmielewski (born 1927), a Minnesota musician, politician, a former legislator, and a former President of the Minnesota Senate
• Florian Clara (born 1988), an Italian luger who has competed since 2005
• Florian Dan Lăcustă (born 1977), a Romanian professional footballer
• Florian Dick (born 1984), a German football defender
• Florian Dinhopel (born 1987), an Austrian ice hockey player currently playing for Graz 99ers
• Florian Eisath (born 1984), an Italian alpine ski racer
• Florian Fricke (1944–2001), a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music
• Florian Fritsch (born 1985), a German professional golfer who currently plays on the Challenge Tour
• Florian Fritz (born 1984), a French rugby union footballer
• Florian Fromlowitz (born 1986), a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Hannover 96
• Florian Gallenberger (born 1972), an Academy Award-winning German film director
• Stefan Florian Garczyński (1805–1833), a Polish patriot and Romantic poet, a passionate Messianist
• Florian Geyer (1490–1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", was a Franconian nobleman, diplomat and knight
• Florian Goebel (1972–2008), a German astrophysicist attached to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich
• Florian Gosch (born 1980), a beach volleyball player from Austria
• Florian Grassl (born 1980), a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2002
• Florian Gruber (born 1983), a German auto racing driver
• Florian Grzechowiak (1914–1972), a Polish basketball player
• Florian Guay, a politician in Quebec, Canada and a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
• Florian Habicht (born 1975), a New Zealand film director
• Florian Hart (born 1990), an Austrian footballer who currently plays for LASK Linz
• Florian Havemann (born 1952), the son of East German dissident Robert Havemann
• Florian Hecker, an electronic music composer
• Florian Heller (born 1982), a German football player
• Johann Florian Heller (1813–1871), an Austrian chemist who was one of the founders of clinical chemistry
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (born 1973), an Oscar-winning Austrian-German director and screenwriter
• Florian Homm (born 1959), a financier, proprietary trader, investment manager, investment banker, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur
• Florian Hube (born 1980), a German football player
• Florian Hufsky (1986–2009), an Austrian new media artist, political activist, founder and former board member of the Pirate Party of Austria
• Florian Iberer (born 1982), an Austrian ice hockey player who currently plays for EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian Hockey League
• Florian Jarjat (born 1980), a French football player
• Florian Jenni (born 1980), a Swiss chess player and International Grandmaster of chess
• Florian Johann Deller (1729–1773), an Austrian composer and violinist
• Florian Jungwirth (born 1989), a German footballer who plays as a defender for Dynamo Dresden
• Florian Just (born 1982), a German pair skater
• Florian Kehrmann (born 1977), a German handball player
• Florian Keller (born 1981), a field hockey player from Germany and the brother of Natascha Keller
• Florian Kempf (born 1956), American football player
• Florian Klein (born 1986), an Austrian football player who currently plays for Austrian team Austria Wien
• Florian Koch (born 1992), a German basketball player
• Florian Kringe (born 1982), a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hertha BSC
• Florian Kunz (born 1972), a former field hockey defender from Germany
• Florian Lampert (1863–1930), a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1918–1930
• Florian Lechner (born 1981), a German football player
• Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774), a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer
• Florian Liegl (born 1983), an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 2000
• Florian Lucchini, a French footballer
• Florian Müller (born 1970), an author, entrepreneur, consultant, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign
• Florian Müller (footballer) (born 1986), a German football player
• Florian Mader (born 1982), an Austrian professional association football player
• Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973), a landscape photographer based in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, USA
• Florian Marange (born 1986), a French football defender, currently playing for AS Nancy
• Florian Marciniak (1915–1944), a Polish Scoutmaster, first Naczelnik of the Szare Szeregi during the Second World War
• Florian Marinescu, a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1980s
• Florian Maurice (born 1974), a French former football player
• Florian Mayer (born 1983), a professional male tennis player from Germany
• Florian Metz (born 1985), an Austrian international footballer who plays as a defender for LASK Linz
• Florian Meyer (born 1968), a German football referee
• Florian Mohr (born 1984), a German footballer, who currently plays for SC Paderborn 07
• Florian Myrtaj (born 1976), an Albanian footballer
• Florian Neuhold (born 1993), an Austrian footballer
• Florian Osore (born 1992), a Kenya rugby union footballer
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa (born 1950), the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air
• Florian Pittiş (1943–2007), a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer
• Florian Pop, a Romanian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania
• Florian Porcius (1816-1906), Austro-Hungarian Romanian botanist
• Florian Prantl, an Austrian luger who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Florian Quintilla (born 1988), a rugby league player
• Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł (1715–1760), a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic
• Florian Riedel (born 1990), a German footballer who plays as a midfielder
• Florian Roost (born 1989), a Swiss ice dancer
• Florian Rousseau (born 1974), a French former track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics
• Florian Süssmayr (born 1963), a German painter from Munich
• Florian Schönbeck (born 1974), a retired German decathlete
• Florian Schabereiter (born 1991), an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 2006
• Florian Schneider (born 1947), one of the founding members of electronic music band Kraftwerk
• Florian Schulz, a professional nature and wildlife photographer based in southern Germany
• Florian Schwarthoff (born 1968), a former German hurdler, won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Florian Seidl (born 1979), an Austrian vehicle designer
• Florian Seitz (born 1982), a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres
• Florian Siwicki (born 1925), a Polish military officer, diplomat, a communist politician, and retired General of the Polish Army
• Florian Skilang Temengil (born 1986), a Palauan wrestler at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas
• Florian Slotawa (born 1972 in Rosenheim) is a German conceptual artist
• Florian Stablewski (1841–1906), a Polish priest and politician
• Florian Stahel (born 1985), a footballer from Switzerland
• Florian Stalder (born 1982), a Swiss racing cyclist with Team Volksbank
• Florian Stengg (born 1989), an Austrian freestyle skier who specializes in the skicross discipline
• Florian Sturm (born 1982), an Austrian footballer currently playing for SV Ried
• Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă (1881–1958), a Romanian psychologist
• Florian Święs (born 1939), a full professor of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• Florian Thorwart (born 1982), a German retired football player who last played for FC Schalke 04 II
• Florian Tschögl received the honorary title “righteous among the Nations” from the Yad Vashem remembrance authority in Jerusalem
• Florian Uhlig (born 1974 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German pianist
• Florian Ungler (died 1536), a printer from Bavaria, pioneer of printing and publishing in Polish language
• Florian Vijent (1961–1989), a Dutch-Surinamese football goalkeeper
• Florian Vogel (disambiguation), several people
• Florian Wanner (born 1978), a German judoka
• Florian Wiek, scholarship-holder of Villa musica-Mainz where he performed chamber music with leading German musicians
• Ernst Florian Winter (born 1923), an Austrian-American historian and political scientist
• Florian ZaBach (1918–2006), an American musician and TV personality
• Florian Zamoyski (?-1510), a Polish nobleman
• Florian Zeller (born 1979), a French novelist and playwright
• Florian Zimmer, the reigning European Champion of Magic
• Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), a Polish sociologist

Surname

• Dawid Florian (born 1982), a Polish professional footballer who plays for Polish second-tier side Znicz Pruszków
• Federico De Florian (born 1921), an Italian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s
• Filip Florian (born 1968), a Romanian author
• Friedrich Karl Florian (1894–1975), the Gauleiter of Düsseldorf in Nazi Germany
• Friedrich St. Florian (born 1932), an Austrian-American architect
• Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), a French poet and romance writer
• Josef Florian (1873–1941), Czech book publisher and translator
• Kenny Florian (born 1976), a Peruvian American mixed martial artist with a background in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai
• Mircea Florian (1888–1960), Romanian philosopher
• Mircea Florian (born 1949), Romanian singer and multimedia artist
• Rick Florian (born 1962), a musician, songwriter and producer, lead singer of Contemporary Christian Music rock band Whiteheart
• Teodor Florian (born 1899), a Romanian rugby union footballer

See also

• Florian (disambiguation)

Notes

1. Kohlheim, Rosa; Kohlheim, Volker (2016). Lexikon der Vornamen (in German) (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag. p. 274. ISBN 978-3-411-04947-9.
2. http://www.behindthename.com/php/related.php?name=florian