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Flynn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 299 in 2025. Its best rank was #654 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #654 in 2021; #828 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Flynn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#828 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #654.
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Flynn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 299 boys in 2025. Peak: #654 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 418 (2021).
In 2025, 299 US boys were named Flynn, making it the 828th most common boys’ name of the year, down 92 places from #736 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 355 boys named Flynn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #654, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 418. For comparison, it was #695 in 2015 and #2,361 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Flynn in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 7,160 US babies have been given the name, 6.7% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,271 babies named Flynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,485 US boys were named Flynn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 418. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,713 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Flynn ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #243 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Flinn and Flynne are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Flinn (12), Flynne (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Flynn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 5 | #243 | #254 |
| Idaho | 6 | #393 | — |
| Utah | 9 | #491 | #369 |
| Oregon | 7 | #494 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #496 | #323 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #525 | #368 |
| Washington | 13 | #544 | #579 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #580 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #581 | #513 |
| Missouri | 9 | #607 | #623 |
| Iowa | 5 | #608 | #364 |
| Ohio | 15 | #630 | #632 |
| Indiana | 10 | #639 | #518 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #720 | #569 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #737 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #738 | #327 |
| Maryland | 6 | #742 | #819 |
| Illinois | 10 | #824 | #566 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #859 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #890 | #653 |
| New York | 15 | #894 | #806 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,011 | #924 |
| California | 21 | #1,020 | #724 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,064 | #785 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,144 | #850 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,183 | #1,679 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,245 | 299 | #828 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,742 | 355 | #736 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,169 | 323 | #783 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,072 | 369 | #715 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,658 | 418 | #654 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,574 | 398 | #659 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,518 | 342 | #716 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,343 | 295 | #780 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,364 | 311 | #757 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,855 | 375 | #679 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,104 | 362 | #695 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,283 | 391 | #658 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,566 | 362 | #667 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,975 | 339 | #702 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,340 | 212 | #939 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,028 | 81 | #1,809 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,791 | 81 | #1,831 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,141 | 78 | #1,863 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,177 | 64 | #2,124 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,854 | 61 | #2,131 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,250 | 66 | #1,928 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,163 | 71 | #1,767 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,150 | 65 | #1,823 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,489 | 46 | #2,266 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,449 | 37 | #2,580 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,166 | 49 | #2,065 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,018 | 36 | #2,482 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,973 | 23 | #3,325 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,615 | 22 | #3,287 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,235 | 23 | #3,146 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,352 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,798 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,887 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,806 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,878 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,043 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,106 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,263 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,090 | 11 | #4,056 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,841 | 11 | #3,963 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,992 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,002 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,124 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,537 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,484 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,760 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,409 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,287 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,268 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,146 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,958 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,948 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,289 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,464 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,029 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,663 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,350 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,630 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,065 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,072 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,116 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,672 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,238 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,358 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,710 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,299 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,314 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,079 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,030 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,997 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,749 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,361 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,676 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,861 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,958 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,193 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,635 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,599 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,032 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,683 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,974 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,750 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,365 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,926 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,460 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,536 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,198 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,442 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,986 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).