Flynn

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Flynn boys named Flynn

By the numbers

Total US births

7,160

Estimated living today

6,900

Median age today

9

Peak year

2021

Best rank

654th

Rank in 2025

827th

First recorded

1913

Girls / boys

479 / 6,681

How old the living Flynns are

born that year still alive today

Of the 7,160 babies given the name since 1913, about 6,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 110 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Anglicized from Irish Ó Floinn, "descendant of Flann (red)".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Flynns

• Lara Flynn Boyle (born 1970)American actress
• Flynn Downes (born 1999)English association football player
• Flynn Southam (born 2005)Australian swimmer
• Flynn Robinson (1941–2013)American basketball player

People named Flynn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Flynn is most common

• CA702
• PA253
• TX247
• IL231
• FL230
• NY228
• OH225
• MI210
• MN198
• WI190

Relative to how many babies each state records, Flynn is most concentrated in Utah (3.8×), Oregon (2.5×), Washington (2.5×), Colorado (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular boys’ names the year Flynn peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Elijah
• James
• William

All the names of 2021

Flynn elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Flynn: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Flynn is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.03% of children were given it – 84 of them.

Flynn: rank by region

In 2025, Flynn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Flynn appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Flynn by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Flynn among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.