The FLINN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,165	6118	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	5,546	1093	0.011	111
Change since 1880	-381	-5025	-0.009	-92
Other Countries
Australia	303	5159	0.002	19
United Kingdom	748	6589	0.002	16

Top States for FLINN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	428	3217	0.004	38
Texas	414	4940	0.002	20
California	393	6869	0.001	12
Florida	346	5618	0.002	22
Pennsylvania	238	6285	0.002	19
Top States for FLINN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	179	1427	0.010	99
Vermont	40	2525	0.007	66
Idaho	69	2577	0.005	53
Kansas	125	2568	0.005	46
Ohio	428	3217	0.004	38

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FLINN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FLINN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FLINN in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FLINN by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FLINN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FLINN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FLINN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FLINN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	142	2.75
White (Hispanic)	65	1.26
Mixed Race	60	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.52
Asian/Pacific	23	0.45
White (Caucasian)	4,848	93.86

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FLINN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FLINN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLINN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.