Florimel is a literary English name, appearing in Edmund Spencer's 1590 work The Faerie Queene as well both the 1647 play The Maid in the Mill by John Fletcher and William Rowley and the 1667 play The Maiden Queen by John Dryden. It is possibly derived from flor meaning "flower" in Latin and maybe meli meaning "honey; sweet" in Greek or melos meaning "song."