Flynn
Flynn was given to 299 boys in 2025, #828 among boys’ names; 7,160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,910 Americans named Flynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Flynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Flynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Flynn is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “descendant of Flann (red)” (Floinn,).
Anglicized from Irish Ó Floinn, “descendant of Flann (red)”.
/flɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Flynn?
#828 among boys’ names, 2025
Flynn fell from #695 in 2015 to #828 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.19 to 0.18 per 1,000.
430 babies in 2021, the peak
Flynn peaked in 2021, when 430 babies were given it (418 boys, #654 among boys’ names). The 314 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 299 | #828 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 355 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 323 | #783 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 369 | #715 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 418 | #654 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 398 | #659 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 342 | #716 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 295 | #780 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 311 | #757 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 375 | #679 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 362 | #695 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 391 | #658 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 362 | #667 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 339 | #702 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 212 | #939 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 81 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 81 | #1,830 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 78 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,124 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,130 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,924 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,764 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,820 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,262 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,478 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,282 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,141 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,792 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,881 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,037 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,258 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,050 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,959 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,989 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,123 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,266 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,946 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,027 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 23 | #1,671 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,237 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,029 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,192 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,924 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,197 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,033 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,441 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,985 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Flynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,160 Americans recorded as Flynn, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 girls and 299 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Flynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Flynn, and how old are they?
6,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,160 Americans ever recorded as Flynn. The median Flynn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,832 people named Flynn (466 women and girls, 4,366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,820 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Flynn born?
The states with the most babies named Flynn are California, Texas and New York, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,020 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,183 | 0.3× |
| New York | 15 | #894 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 15 | #630 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 14 | #581 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #544 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #720 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,144 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 10 | #824 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #496 | 1.4× |
Where Flynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Flynn is most over-represented in Utah: since 1913 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Flynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Flynn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Flynn and names like it
- Compare Flynn and LockeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFlynn peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Flynn since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Flynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Flynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Flynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.