Flynn — #736 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Flynn

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,378 babies named Flynn between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Flynn currently holds the #736 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 418 babies received it in a single year. Flynn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 464 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Flynn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,070 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Flynn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 665 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Flynn in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Flynn 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 6,378 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.