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Flynn
Top 1000
About Flynn
Flynn, a charming Irish surname, is still used only quietly, despite its easygoing, casual cowboy charm, unlike Finn which is a star of this genre. Flynn was the choice of Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr for their baby boy, and is also the middle name -- used as his first -- of a son of Miranda's fellow supermodel Elle Macpherson, of Gary Oldman's son Gulliver and Marley Shelton's daughter West.
Flynn Rider (born Eugene Fitzherbert) is the dashing animated hero of the Disney film "Tangled." On TV's "Breaking Bad", Flynn was what young Walter Jr. tried to rename himself. The name was long associated with the swashbuckling Errol Flynn, inspiration of the phrase "in like Flynn." Some may connect this name to controversial former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
Flynn entered the U.S. Top 1000 in 2011, and is a highly popular choice in Australia and New Zealand.
Pronounced FLIN.
As of October 2026, Flynn ranked #828 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #653 in 2021, Nameberry popularity #154.
Editor's take: The name Flynn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "descendant of the red-haired one".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #658 | 391 | 203.6 |
| 2015 | #695 | 362 | 188.9 |
| 2016 | #679 | 375 | 197.6 |
| 2017 | #757 | 311 | 168 |
| 2018 | #780 | 295 | 162.4 |
| 2019 | #716 | 342 | 190.6 |
| 2020 | #658 | 398 | 230.6 |
| 2021 | #653 | 418 | 238.9 |
| 2022 | #714 | 369 | 211.3 |
| 2023 | #782 | 323 | 188.8 |
| 2024 | #737 | 351 | 203.7 |
| 2025 | #828 | 299 | 175.1 |
World rankings
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Famous Flynns
- Flynn Zachariah Bogue (b. 2012)
son of actors Mandy Bruno and Robert Bogue
- Flynn Gower
Australian singer of band Cog
- Flynn Morrison
American child actor
- Flynn Downes
English footballer
- Flynn McGarry
American teen chef
- Flynn Adam (Atkins)
American rapper of LA Symphony
- Flynn Earl Jones (b. 1983)
son of actors James Earl Jones and Cecilia Hart
- Flynn Nichols (b. 1991)
son of ice hockey player Bernie Nichols; twin of sister McKenna
- (Arpad) Flynn Alexander Busson (b. 1998)
son of model Elle MacPherson and Arpad Busson
- Flynn Alexander Baxter (b. 2008)
son of actress Victoria Smurfit and Douglas Baxter
- Flynn Nolan (b. 2010)
son of novelist Gillian Flynn and Brett Nolan
- Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom (b. 2011)
son of model Miranda Kerr and actor Orlando Bloom
- Errol Flynn
American,Australian actor
- Flynn Davies (b. 2013)
late son of actress Leigh Arnold and Steve Davies
- Flynn Roscoe Farrar (b. 2014)
son of musician Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet
- Flynn Patrick Maguire (b. 2015)
son of actor Sean Maguire
- Flynn Timothy Stocklin (b. 2018)
son of youtuber Colleen Ballinger and actor Erik Stocklin
- Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale (b. 2014)
son of singers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale
- Flynn Maxwell Renna (b. 2017)
son of actors Patrick and Jasmine Renna
Flynn in pop culture
- Flynn Rider aka Eugene Fitzherbert
character in Disney's "Tangled"
- Flynn Jones
character on TV's "Shake it Up"
- Flynn Carsen
character in "The Librarian" movies
- Flynn Odair
Son of Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games series
- Flynn
nickname of Walter White Jr. on TV's "Breaking Bad"
- Flynn
main character in Shin Megami Tensei IV
- Kevin and Sam Flynn
characters in the Tron series
- Phineas Flynn
character on animated series "Phineas and Ferb"
- Garcia Flynn
main character on NBC's TV series 'Timeless'
- "Nosey" Flynn
character in James Joyce's "Dubliners" and "Ulysses"