Flannery

10,346 people in the United States were counted with the surname Flannery in the 2020 census, making it the 3,381st most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,346
Rank: 3,381st
How common: 1 in 28,900
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Flannabhra (“descendant of Flannabhra”), a personal name derived from flann (“blood red”) + abhra (“eyebrow”). The bridge convention was invented by American player William (Bill) L. Flannery.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Flannery described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Flannery

Tim Flannery (born 1956)Australian scientist and global warming activist
Susan Flannery (born 1939)American actress
Kate Flannery (born 1964)American actress

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

Surnames like Flannery

Also a first name

Flannery has been given to 580 American babies as a first name since 1980, peaking in 2006. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.