Finnegan
Where Finnegan comes from
Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin (“descendant of Fionnagán”). Fionnagán is a given name that descends from Old Irish Finnacán, which is typically anglicised as Finnegan itself.
Finnegan through the years
- 1995First appearance#6,992 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
- 2021Peak, #378860 babies named Finnegan, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
No widely recognized namesakes for Finnegan in Wikidata.
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.