This is an incomplete list of names used for specific flags, either as officially designated titles or traditional nicknames.
- Aappalaartoq (the red), Denmark
- Aappalaartoq (the red), Greenland
- Alsancak (Holy Red Standard), Turkey
- Albayrak (Red Flag), Turkey
- Ay Yıldız (Crescent Star), Turkey
- Bandeira Auriverde (gold and green flag), Brazil
- Bandeira das Quinas (flag of the quinas, the five blue shields of the Portuguese arms), Portugal
- Blue Sky with a White Sun, canton of the flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Bonnie Blue Flag, official flag of the now-defunct Republic of West Florida, also used in some places as an unofficial banner of the Confederate States of America.
- Dannebrog, Denmark
- Y Ddraig Goch (the red dragon), Wales
- Erfalasorput (our flag), Greenland
- La Estrella Solitaria (the lonely star), Chile
- La Estrella Solitaria (the lonely star), Cuba
- Eureka Flag
- Five-Starred Red Flag, People's Republic of China
- Gwenn-ha-du (white and black), Brittany
- Hinomaru (sun disc), Japan
- Galanolefki, (light blue and white), Greece
- Golden Arrowhead, Guyana
- Hvítbláinn, a former unofficial flag, Iceland
- Ikurriña, Basque Country, Spain and more generally the Basque people
- Jalur Gemilang (glorious stripes), Malaysia
- Jolly Roger, pirate flag
- Maple Leaf, Canada
- Fleurdelisé, Québec
- Merkið, Faroe Islands
- Nisshōki (sun flag), Japan
- Old Glory, United States
- Rainbow flag
- Šahovnica
- Saint George's Cross, England
- Saint Piran's Flag, Cornwall, England
- Saltire, Scotland
- Sang Merah Putih (the red white), Indonesia
- Senyera, Aragon and Barcelona, Spain
- Shqiponja Dykrenare (the two-headed eagle), Albania
- Sinimustvalge (blue-black-white), Estonia (unofficial)
- Siniristilippu, Finland
- Shir-o-Khorshid (the lion and the sun), former flag of Iran
- Southern Cross can refer to the blue saltire as used in various flags of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
- Stars and Bars, Confederate States of America
- Stars and Stripes, United States
- Star-Spangled Banner, United States
- Taegeukgi, South Korea
- Tjúgufáni, state flag of Iceland
- Tiranga, India
- Tricolore (tricolour), a term for several national flags
- Union Flag, flag of the United Kingdom
- Union Jack, flag of the United Kingdom
- Union Jack, state jack and former naval jack of the United States
- Flag of South Africa The Rainbow Flag, Unity Flag, or Interim Flag (all unofficial)
- Звездата од Кутлеш - Вергина (Sun of Kutlesh - Vergina), former state flag of Republic of Macedonia and national flag of Macedonian Slavs
- Wiphala, flag of Andean peoples in Bolivia and Peru
