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Descriptive surname · Spanish

Flores

"flowers"

Say it

FLOH-res

Where it comes from

flores (flowers), or from the given name Floro (Latin Florus: flowering)

Meaning of the surname Flores

Flores is a Spanish surname of the descriptive type meaning "flowers". It is one of the 50 most common surnames in Mexico. Eleventh in Mexico.

A nickname that stuck: Moreno (dark-haired), Delgado (thin), Rubio (fair), Bravo (fierce), Cortés (courteous).

In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Flores appears as either half of a pair: Flores García, López Flores. Read how the two-surname system works.

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