Flann Explained

Flann
Gender:	male/female
Masculine:	Flann/Flannan
Feminine:	Flann/Flannaid
Meaning:	from the Irish meaning 'red-haired'
Origin:	Irish
Variant Forms:	Flannan, Flannaid
Name Day:	15 December

Flann is both an English surname and an Irish masculine given name, but has also been used as a feminine given name.^[1]

It might refer to:

• Flann Fína mac Ossu, another name for King Aldfrith of Northumbria (died 704 or 705)
• Flann mac Lonáin (died 896), Irish poet
• Flann Sinna (died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland
• Flann Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar
• Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan (1911 - 1966)

FLANN, an acronym for Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors, is a C++ library for approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional spaces.^[2]

See also

• List of Irish-language given names

Notes and References

1. Web site: Index of Names in Irish Annals: Flann. Medieval Scotland. 16 August 2013.
2. Arul Suju, Hancy Jose, FLANN: Fast approximate nearest neighbour search algorithm for elucidating human-wildlife conflicts in forest areas