Finnley
#1,512 for girls in 2025, 141 births · #757 for boys in 2025, 340 births
Given to boys 69.4% of the time
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #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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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.
Where Finnley is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alaska#129 · 1 in 366
- Montana#234 · 1 in 696
- New Hampshire#236 · 1 in 933
- Wisconsin#276 · 1 in 1,106
- Colorado#288 · 1 in 1,123
Best ever in a state: #129 in Alaska, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #129 | 7 | 1 in 366 |
| Montana | #234 | 5 | 1 in 696 |
| New Hampshire | #236 | 5 | 1 in 933 |
| Wisconsin | #276 | 22 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Colorado | #288 | 23 | 1 in 1,123 |
| Oregon | #298 | 14 | 1 in 1,136 |
| Minnesota | #301 | 20 | 1 in 1,257 |
| Washington | #338 | 23 | 1 in 1,452 |
| Idaho | #350 | 6 | 1 in 1,336 |
| Pennsylvania | #432 | 23 | 1 in 2,411 |
| Arkansas | #437 | 7 | 1 in 1,857 |
| Kansas | #450 | 7 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Michigan | #478 | 17 | 1 in 2,527 |
| Tennessee | #481 | 15 | 1 in 2,389 |
| Kentucky | #491 | 8 | 1 in 2,481 |
| Ohio | #509 | 19 | 1 in 2,853 |
| Maryland | #529 | 9 | 1 in 2,772 |
| North Carolina | #539 | 17 | 1 in 3,002 |
| Virginia | #575 | 12 | 1 in 3,259 |
| Arizona | #596 | 10 | 1 in 3,262 |
| Missouri | #626 | 8 | 1 in 3,568 |
| New York | #649 | 22 | 1 in 4,051 |
| Florida | #651 | 23 | 1 in 4,033 |
| Utah | #680 | 5 | 1 in 3,840 |
| New Jersey | #682 | 9 | 1 in 4,506 |
| South Carolina | #696 | 5 | 1 in 4,051 |
| California | #715 | 37 | 1 in 5,118 |
| Massachusetts | #738 | 5 | 1 in 5,703 |
| Indiana | #760 | 7 | 1 in 4,680 |
| Georgia | #763 | 11 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Louisiana | #803 | 5 | 1 in 4,347 |
| Illinois | #877 | 9 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Texas | #1,116 | 18 | 1 in 9,507 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Finnley
- 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)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2021 at #591 (470 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- 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
- 50.4% of all boys named Finnley (2,849) were born in this decade
- 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.
Finnley in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 9,485 of them was named Finnley, which outranked 92.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,301Karma174
- #1,301Lettie174
- #1,301Onyx174
- #1,304Finnley173
- #1,304Georgina173
- #1,304Giulia173
- #1,304Heather173
- #1,312Carson172
- #1,312Elinor172
- #1,312Janae172
Tied with 7 names at #1,304; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 3,722 of them was named Finnley, which outranked 95.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).