as a Last Name
- 10,126
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Flannery
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flannabhra ‘descendant of Flannabhra ’ meaning ‘red eyebrows’, or (with r for the second l) a possible Anglicized form of Ó Flannghaile ‘descendant of Flannghal ’, a personal name composed of the elements flann ‘red’, ‘ruddy’ + gal ‘valor’. Both are Connacht names.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,126
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Flannery per capita
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