Entry № 3380 · Irish origin

Flannery Flannery — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FLAN-er-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Descendant of the red one (Flannery O'Connor, Southern Gothic master)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Irish)

A name that means "descendant of the red one (flannery o'connor, southern gothic master)".

Flannery is from the Irish surname Ó Flannghaile — flann (red) + gal (valor).

Subject of Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life (2009).

Descendant of the red one (Flannery O'Connor, Southern Gothic master) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Flannery
Transliteration
Flannery
Pronunciation
/ ˈflæn.ər.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Flannery stands.

Flannery does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Flannerys before her.

Real people
Flannery O'Connor
American Southern novelist.
1925 – 1964
In fiction
Flannery
Wise Blood.
1952

Names connected to Flannery.

The number behind Flannery.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Flannery reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.