diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/aliases.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/aliases.nix
index 8a95ceb753e0..cf62982f0c04 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/aliases.nix
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ mapAliases (with prev; {
   eighties            = vim-eighties;
   extradite           = vim-extradite;
   fugitive            = vim-fugitive;
+  floating-nvim       = throw "floating.nvim has been removed: abandoned by upstream. Use popup-nvim or nui-nvim"; # Added 2024-11-26
   ghc-mod-vim         = ghcmod-vim;
   ghcmod              = ghcmod-vim;
   goyo                = goyo-vim;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix
index f5e85edbb4f2..7ff10d1b4d68 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix
@@ -4103,18 +4103,6 @@ final: prev:
     meta.homepage = "https://github.com/liangxianzhe/floating-input.nvim/";
   };
 
-  floating-nvim = buildVimPlugin {
-    pname = "floating.nvim";
-    version = "2021-07-19";
-    src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "fhill2";
-      repo = "floating.nvim";
-      rev = "11e75c2a201b9d73f03bd3c2db1fc94021c231eb";
-      sha256 = "172ak3macqmkz4jvic1xcnfpp6wafq33afyvcx4za170qh30sydj";
-    };
-    meta.homepage = "https://github.com/fhill2/floating.nvim/";
-  };
-
   floobits-neovim = buildVimPlugin {
     pname = "floobits-neovim";
     version = "2021-10-18";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names
index 81fb52a7437d..08d8a46ab67a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ https://github.com/felipeagc/fleet-theme-nvim/,,
 https://github.com/ggandor/flit.nvim/,HEAD,
 https://github.com/ncm2/float-preview.nvim/,,
 https://github.com/liangxianzhe/floating-input.nvim/,HEAD,
-https://github.com/fhill2/floating.nvim/,,
 https://github.com/floobits/floobits-neovim/,,
 https://github.com/nvim-flutter/flutter-tools.nvim/,HEAD,
 https://github.com/nvim-focus/focus.nvim/,HEAD,