Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Flynn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Flynn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Flynn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Flynn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Flynn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Flynn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Flynn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Flynn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 13 0.000003145 13 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 -100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 18 0.00000506 7 11 -22%
1987 18 0.000004992 7 11 -22%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 -100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 -100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 -100%
1996 28 0.000007677 5 23 -64%
1997 28 0.000007723 6 22 -57%
1998 29 0.000007884 6 23 -59%
1999 46 0.000012453 10 36 -57%
2000 58 0.000015344 9 49 -69%
2001 51 0.000013624 14 37 -45%
2002 63 0.000016853 17 46 -46%
2003 84 0.000022092 19 65 -55%
2004 81 0.000021199 10 71 -75%
2005 82 0.000021327 16 66 -61%
2006 71 0.000017947 10 61 -72%
2007 77 0.000019261 13 64 -66%
2008 91 0.000023151 13 78 -71%
2009 90 0.000023559 9 81 -80%
2010 96 0.000025976 15 81 -69%
2011 226 0.000061786 14 212 -88%
2012 361 0.000098705 22 339 -88%
2013 393 0.000107799 31 362 -84%
2014 411 0.00011089 20 391 -90%
2015 383 0.000103488 21 362 -89%
2016 397 0.000108213 22 375 -89%
2017 330 0.000092277 19 311 -88%
2018 314 0.000089309 19 295 -88%
2019 360 0.000103719 18 342 -90%
2020 410 0.000122733 12 398 -94%
2021 430 0.00012692 12 418 -94%
2022 395 0.000116756 26 369 -87%
2023 348 0.000105098 25 323 -86%
2024 368 0.00011056 17 351 -91%

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