Fin
Fin was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,332 among boys’ names; 251 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fin?
#7,332 among boys’ names, 2025
Fin fell from #4,595 in 2015 to #7,332 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 6.4 per million.
21 babies in 2015, the peak
Fin peaked in 2015, when 21 boys were given it, #4,595 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,332 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,942 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,310 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,256 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,616 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,790 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,677 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,609 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,425 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,382 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,595 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,932 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,010 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,373 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,281 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,341 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,883 | 5.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,651 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,007 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,447 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fin, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Fin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 457 people named Fin (68 women and girls, 389 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Fin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,350 babies since 1880, Fin is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,857 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fin and names like it
- Compare Fin and FinnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFin peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fin since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Fin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.