Floros Family History

Greek:: nickname from floros ‘greenfinch’ from classical Greek chlōros ‘green’. from the personal name Floros which is a Hellenized form of Latin Florus (from florus ‘blooming flowering’) the name of a Christian martyr from Illyria venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church.

This may also be a shortened form of a derivative of this name such as the patronymic Floropoulos.