The Flournoy surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,344 people carried this name — #6,370 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 55,200 people counted. That is up 5% from 5,104 in 2000.

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In print

Flournoy in American newspapers,
1895–1906.

Newspaper page from The Herald carrying the name Flournoy
The Herald 1898-11-11
Newspaper page from The Roswell Daily Record carrying the name Flournoy
The Roswell Daily Record 1906-06-11
Newspaper page from Essex County Herald carrying the name Flournoy
Essex County Herald 1895-12-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 41,383 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Flournoy,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Thomas Flournoy
    Thomas Flournoy 1775–1857 · military officer
  • Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy
    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy 1846–1904 · teacher
  • Théodore Flournoy
    Théodore Flournoy 1853–1920 · psychologist
  • Jacques Flournoy 1645–1693 · parson
  • Mathews Flournoy 1732–1785
  • Elizabeth Julia Flournoy 1800–1882

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Flournoy,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States279 records

279 records of the Flournoy name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 177
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 78
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 13
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Cullen N. Flournoy

    Born 1906 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Waco; office clerk from Mc Lennan County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran; died 1997, buried at Waco Memorial Park, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jeffery Donald Flournoy

    Born 1948; from Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1967 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record James Cleveland Flournoy

    U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1930, died 1999; buried at Fort Mitchell National Cemetery, Alabama.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 279 records for Flournoy in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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