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How popular is the name Flynn?
Births per year, rank history and how many Flynns are alive today.
Flynn (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 227th in 2025 with 218 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2014, when 418 babies were given the name, the 137th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 242 in 2018 before climbing back to the 227th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 6,300 babies have been named Flynn in England and Wales since 1996.
The Flynn you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Flynns born in England and Wales are between 8 and 18, and there are at least 6,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Flynn.
How many babies are named Flynn each year?
Where does Flynn rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Flynn most popular?
Flynn peaked in 2014, when 418 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Flynn?
At least 6,400 people named Flynn born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Flynn?
Most living Flynns are between 8 and 18; the most common age is about 13.
Is Flynn becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.