Findlay — #8686 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Findlay

The Social Security Administration has registered 279 babies named Findlay between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Findlay currently holds the #8686 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Findlay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Findlay performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Findlay shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Findlay in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Findlay in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 279 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.