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
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 2,329 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,949since 1918
Finn over time
Rank among boys' names. Finn has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #206 | 1,702 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #198 | 1,799 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #187 | 1,921 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #177 | 2,144 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #184 | 2,092 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #179 | 2,147 |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 | #173 | 2,243 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #166 | 2,329 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #167 | 2,382 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #175 | 2,297 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #209 | 1,906 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | #234 | 1,585 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #250 | 1,456 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #291 | 1,216 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #302 | 1,090 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #300 | 1,093 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #342 | 920 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #366 | 850 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #386 | 783 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #457 | 592 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #529 | 458 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #569 | 400 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #658 | 300 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #806 | 213 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #802 | 209 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #835 | 192 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #1,080 | 124 |
| 1998 | — | #1,288 | 93 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,964 | 46 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
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| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,205 | 14 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2018 at #166 (2,329 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- 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
- 50.4% of all boys named Finn (17,597) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,174 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,151 (1928) | #4,151 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,175 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 30 | #2,964 (1955) | #3,576 |
| 1960s | 82 | #2,205 (1964) | #3,169 |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,963 (1971) | #4,568 |
| 1980s | 59 | #3,630 (1983) | #5,328 |
| 1990s | 405 | #1,080 (1999) | #3,303 |
| 2000s | 4,917 | #342 (2009) | #575 |
| 2010s | 17,597 | #166 (2018) | #227 |
| 2020s | 11,805 | #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
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
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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).
Tied with 634 names at #4,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.