Finesse — unisex name

What the Data Says About Finesse

The Social Security Administration has registered 195 babies named Finesse between 1953 and 2015, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Finesse currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Finesse is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Finesse performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Finesse shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Finesse in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Finesse 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 195 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.