Meaning & Origin
A diminutive of the female given name Florence.
Floy is a girl's and boy's baby name of Latin origin, a shortened diminutive of Florence, from the Latin florens, meaning 'flourishing, blossoming.' It represents the Victorian habit of creating affectionate short forms of longer classical names.
Floy was used primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in the American South. It has a wonderfully unusual quality — a name so compressed and rare that it feels like a genuine discovery today.