Baby name

Flynn

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7% girls / 93% boys

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Rising name

2021 was its best year: 418 births, or 1 baby in 8,110. The momentum is recent: births are up 4% over the last five years, compared with the decade before. Its rank in 2025: No. 827. 46% of all babies named Flynn since 1880 were born in the 2010s.

6,681births since 1880

2020sgeneration

No. 654rank at its peak, in 2021

Where babies named Flynn are born

2021

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The darker the blue, the more common Flynn is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Flynn is most common in Michigan (1.5 times), Pennsylvania (1.4) and Ohio (1.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Lynn 52,391
Glynn 4,943
Fynn 1,600

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1910s	0%	100%
1920s	0%	100%
1930s	0%	100%
1940s	0%	100%
1950s	0%	100%
1960s	0%	100%
1970s	0%	100%
1980s	9%	91%
1990s	12%	88%
2000s	17%	83%
2010s	6%	94%
2020s	5%	95%