Flynn

What Flynn means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Flynn yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #695 in 2015 to #827 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Flynn?

US: Falling: down from #695 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #157 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 418 boys got the name (#654 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 5,713 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,247 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 457 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (1.3 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.7 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.46 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Flynn is #827 in the US and #227 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 95.2% of US babies named Flynn were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Flynn

Boys

• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*

For a sister

• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Flynn’s. Rank is US 2025.