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Flynn

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //flɪn//

A surname from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Irish.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  3. 3

    A place name: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after John Flynn.

  4. 4

    A place name: A suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, also named after John Flynn.

  5. 5

    A place name: A locality in the City of Latrobe and the Shire of Wellington, central eastern Victoria, Australia.

  6. 6

    A place name: A township in Sanilac County, Michigan, United States.

  7. 7

    A place name: An unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States.

  8. 8

    A place name: An unincorporated community in Leon County, Texas, United States.

Etymology

Anglicized from Irish Ó Floinn, "descendant of Flann (red)".

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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