Flannery
Girl · FLAN-uh-ree · Irish
Flannery is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “red eyebrows”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Flannery mean?
Irish: Irish surname Ó Flannabhra
“red eyebrows”
Flannery O'Connor, the American Southern Gothic writer, made this Irish surname famous as a first name.
- Say it
- FLAN-uh-ree
Is Flannery a girl's or a boy's name?
Flannery is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Flannery in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Flannery, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Flannery in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Flannery in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,708 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,213 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,841 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,667 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,303 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,783 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,676 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,467 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
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