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The FLYNN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 61,747 487 0.023 229
United States (1880 census) 18,731 284 0.037 375
Change since 1880 +43016 -203 -0.014 -146
Other Countries
Australia 4,282 340 0.026 262
United Kingdom 14,701 402 0.032 320
Top States for FLYNN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 5,583 71 0.088 879
New York 5,396 255 0.028 284
California 4,485 683 0.013 132
Florida 4,029 440 0.025 252
Pennsylvania 3,192 331 0.026 260
Top States for FLYNN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 5,583 71 0.088 879
Rhode Island 660 112 0.063 630
Connecticut 1,694 127 0.050 497
New Hampshire 591 237 0.048 478
Vermont 283 250 0.046 465

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of FLYNN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FLYNN 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 FLYNN 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 FLYNN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 902 1.46
Mixed Race 661 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 346 0.56
Asian/Pacific 296 0.48
White (Caucasian) 57,820 93.64
Black/African American 1,729 2.8

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

Meaning of FLYNN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FLYNN.

Similar names to FLYNN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLYNN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FLYNN

The following words are slight variants of FLYNN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.