Flynn
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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 for boys#828 US
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.
Flynn for girls#7245 US
A winning last-name-first Celtic choice, Flynn is still mostly used for boys, such as the son of Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr. Though Flynn is definitely one of the Irish surname names, from Quinn to Flannery to Makenna, that makes one of the trendy boy names for girls".
Pronounced FLIN.
As of October 2026, Flynn ranked #828 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #653 in 2021, Nameberry popularity #220.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #658 | 391 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #695 | 362 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #679 | 375 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #757 | 311 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #780 | 295 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #716 | 342 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #658 | 398 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #653 | 418 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #714 | 369 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #782 | 323 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #737 | 351 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #828 | 299 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Flynn on lists
Famous Flynns
- Flynn Zachariah Bogue (b. 2012)Boy
son of actors Mandy Bruno and Robert Bogue
- Flynn GowerBoy
Australian singer of band Cog
- Flynn MorrisonBoy
American child actor
- Flynn DownesBoy
English footballer
- Flynn McGarryBoy
American teen chef
- Flynn Adam (Atkins)Boy
American rapper of LA Symphony
- Flynn Earl Jones (b. 1983)Boy
son of actors James Earl Jones and Cecilia Hart
- Flynn Nichols (b. 1991)Boy
son of ice hockey player Bernie Nichols; twin of sister McKenna
- (Arpad) Flynn Alexander Busson (b. 1998)Boy
son of model Elle MacPherson and Arpad Busson
- Flynn Alexander Baxter (b. 2008)Boy
son of actress Victoria Smurfit and Douglas Baxter
- Flynn Nolan (b. 2010)Boy
son of novelist Gillian Flynn and Brett Nolan
- Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom (b. 2011)Boy
son of model Miranda Kerr and actor Orlando Bloom
- Errol FlynnBoy
American,Australian actor
- Flynn Davies (b. 2013)Boy
late son of actress Leigh Arnold and Steve Davies
- Flynn Roscoe Farrar (b. 2014)Boy
son of musician Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet
- Flynn Patrick Maguire (b. 2015)Boy
son of actor Sean Maguire
- Flynn Timothy Stocklin (b. 2018)Boy
son of youtuber Colleen Ballinger and actor Erik Stocklin
- Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale (b. 2014)Boy
son of singers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale
- Flynn Maxwell Renna (b. 2017)Boy
son of actors Patrick and Jasmine Renna
- Flynn MeaneyGirl
novelist
- Lara Flynn BoyleGirl
American actress
Flynn in pop culture
- Flynn Rider aka Eugene FitzherbertBoy
character in Disney's "Tangled"
- Flynn JonesBoy
character on TV's "Shake it Up"
- Flynn CarsenBoy
character in "The Librarian" movies
- Flynn OdairBoy
Son of Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games series
- FlynnBoy
nickname of Walter White Jr. on TV's "Breaking Bad"
- FlynnBoy
main character in Shin Megami Tensei IV
- Kevin and Sam FlynnBoy
characters in the Tron series
- Phineas FlynnBoy
character on animated series "Phineas and Ferb"
- Garcia FlynnBoy
main character on NBC's TV series 'Timeless'
- "Nosey" FlynnBoy
character in James Joyce's "Dubliners" and "Ulysses"
- Flynn LoganGirl
character from Timeless
- Tamika FlynnGirl
character from the podcast Welcome to Night Vale.