Flynn

61,341 people in the United States were counted with the surname Flynn in the 2020 census, making it the 537th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,873.

By the numbers

People: 61,341
Rank: 537th
How common: 1 in 4,873
Per 100,000: 20.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Flynn

Errol Flynn (1909–1959)Australian actor
Gillian Flynn (born 1971)American author and critic
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964)American politician
Michael Flynn (born 1958)U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor
Brandon Flynn (born 1993)American actor
Jerome Flynn (born 1963)English actor and singer
Neil Flynn (born 1960)American actor and comedian
Robb Flynn (born 1967)American guitarist and vocalist

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

Also a first name

Flynn has been given to 7,160 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2021. 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.