Finn

#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #206 for boys in 2025, 1,702 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2018 · 2,329 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
34,949
since 1918

Finn over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Finn has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #166, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,13315#2061,702
2024#11,1228#1981,799
2023#6,68017#1871,921
2022#7,63114#1772,144
2021#5,74821#1842,092
2020#5,16824#1792,147
2019#5,04126#1732,243
2018#5,45423#1662,329
2017#4,14735#1672,382
2016#4,85028#1752,297
2015#5,12726#2091,906
2014#6,45119#2341,585
2013#7,37216#2501,456
2012#9,71111#2911,216
2011#7,43616#3021,090
2010#9,79011#3001,093
2009#6,09122#342920
2008#6,55920#366850
2007#8,52014#386783
2006#11,4179#457592
2005#8,88312#529458
2004#11,6248#569400
2003#11,3258#658300
2002#15,4325#806213
2001#13,5216#802209
2000#8,53411#835192
1999#12,6886#1,080124
1998—#1,28893
1997—#1,96446
1996—#2,04742
1995—#2,34633
1994—#3,21521
1993—#5,36010
1992—#3,60417
1991—#4,00514
1990—#8,1175
1989—#6,9416
1988—#7,2705
1987—#4,9688
1986—#4,8538
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1984—#4,5528
1983—#3,63011
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1981—#5,4686
1980—#4,9407
1979—#4,4038
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1977—#4,1648
1976—#5,5875
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1971—#3,9637
1970—#4,7245
1969—#3,3148
1968—#2,57611
1967—#3,5596
1966—#2,7849
1965—#3,9305
1964—#2,20514
1963—#2,8589
1962—#4,0335
1961—#3,0978
1960—#3,3377
1959—#3,9885
1958—#3,5596
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1955—#2,9648
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Finn! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1936, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Finn is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more boys named Finn in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Finn
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 8 spots since 2024 (#198 → #206)
  • 27 spots since 2020 (#179 → #206)
  • 3 spots since 2015 (#209 → #206)
  • Biggest jump: 245 spots in 2000 (#1,080 → #835)
  • Biggest drop: 11 spots in 2024 (#187 → #198)
Rise & fade · boys
100 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2018 at #166 (2,329 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 26 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 777
  • Highest: 1 in 777 boys born in 2017 were named Finn (0.13%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,004 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
  • Its best rank, #166 in 2018, was only 1 in 780 (0.13%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 50.4% of all boys named Finn (17,597) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#4,168 (1919)#4,174
1920s5#4,151 (1928)#4,151
1930s6#3,175 (1937)#3,175
1940s0——
1950s30#2,964 (1955)#3,576
1960s82#2,205 (1964)#3,169
1970s33#3,963 (1971)#4,568
1980s59#3,630 (1983)#5,328
1990s405#1,080 (1999)#3,303
2000s4,917#342 (2009)#575
2010s17,597#166 (2018)#227
2020s11,805#177 (2022)#189

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Finn in 1918

boys
#4,179
5 births · 1 in 202,696 boys

Top boys' names in 1918

  1. #1John56,558
  2. #2William45,291
  3. #3James42,115
  4. #4Robert40,619
  5. #5Charles26,921
  6. #6George26,318
  7. #7Joseph26,261
  8. #8Edward19,489
  9. #9Frank17,018
  10. #10Thomas13,910
  11. #4,179Finn5
More about 1918

boys

1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 202,696 of them was named Finn, which outranked 13.2% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Finn
  1. #3,728Zeke6
  2. #3,728Zigmunt6
  3. #3,728Zoltan6
  4. #4,179Finn5
  5. #4,179Abdon5
  6. #4,179Abelino5
  7. #4,179Abert5

Tied with 634 names at #4,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 600Quinton#1,092 → #492
  2. ↑ 542Pershing#876 → #334
  3. ↑ 480Quentin#723 → #243
  4. ↑ 440Issac#1,264 → #824
  5. ↑ 339Furman#1,092 → #753
Fallers
  1. ↓ 473Bernhard#900 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 424Edson#919 → #1,343
  3. ↓ 394Gasper#919 → #1,313
  4. ↓ 352Berton#934 → #1,286
  5. ↓ 346Ishmael#997 → #1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1918 →