Finnley
#1,512 for girls in 2025, 141 births · #757 for boys in 2025, 340 births
Given to boys 69.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 470 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,658since 1999
Finnley over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,512 | 141 | #757 | 340 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #715 | 371 |
| 2023 | #1,534 | 139 | #664 | 409 |
| 2022 | #1,325 | 177 | #598 | 470 |
| 2021 | #1,304 | 173 | #591 | 470 |
| 2020 | #1,291 | 172 | #610 | 449 |
| 2019 | #1,332 | 171 | #597 | 464 |
| 2018 | #1,162 | 207 | #615 | 438 |
| 2017 | #1,201 | 202 | #615 | 426 |
| 2016 | #1,294 | 185 | #631 | 423 |
| 2015 | #1,362 | 174 | #749 | 323 |
| 2014 | #1,562 | 139 | #853 | 260 |
| 2013 | #1,775 | 115 | #1,058 | 178 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | #1,383 | 121 |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 | #1,495 | 108 |
| 2010 | #2,752 | 64 | #1,503 | 108 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #1,688 | 93 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #2,062 | 67 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #10,667 | 5 |
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First appearance
1999
The first year at least five boys were named Finnley! It came in at #7,874, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2002, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 42 spots since 2024 (#715 → #757)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#610 → #757)
- 8 spots since 2015 (#749 → #757)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2014 (#1,058 → #853)
- Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2023 (#598 → #664)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2021 at #591 (470 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,715
- Highest: 1 in 3,715 boys born in 2022 were named Finnley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,024 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #591 in 2021, was only 1 in 3,722 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 50.4% of all boys named Finnley (2,849) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2003
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7 | #7,874 (1999) | #7,874 |
| 2000s | 293 | #1,688 (2009) | #4,309 |
| 2010s | 2,849 | #597 (2019) | #950 |
| 2020s | 2,509 | #591 (2021) | #656 |
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.
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