Flournoy — boys' name
26 babies named Flournoy in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1914. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
77% of everyone ever named Flournoy was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Flournoy in 1914 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Flournoy
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Flournoy between 1914 and 1949, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Flournoy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1949. The name reached its historical peak in 1914, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Flournoy performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Flournoy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Flournoy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Flournoy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 26 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Flournoy at a glance
Last recorded 1949Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Flournoy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1949–1914
- Peak year (1914)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1949.
26 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1914 with 10 births in a single year.
Flournoy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 20 births that decade — 77% of Flournoy's all-time total
Flournoy decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Flournoy's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 77% of all-time use.
Flournoy by state
Where Flournoy concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 8 | 30.8% |
8 of 26 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 30.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 30.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–1949 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.