Finis
Finis was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 2,200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Finis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Finis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,085, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1922, the peak
Finis peaked in 1922, when 70 boys were given it, #802 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #13,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,639 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #6,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,958 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,217 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,584 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,001 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,122 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,961 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,437 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,354 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,533 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,970 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,501 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,460 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,574 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,424 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,093 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,288 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,282 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,138 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,079 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,368 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 51 | #872 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 48 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 48 | #984 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 53 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,001 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 57 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 70 | #802 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 61 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 56 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 57 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 47 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 44 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 41 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 29 | #920 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 37 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 12 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 15 | #795 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 12 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 15 | #694 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 11 | #834 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 10 | #815 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 10 | #807 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 9 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 12 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 6 | #973 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 10 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 8 | #847 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 10 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 11 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 7 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 10 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 14 | #509 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 7 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 11 | #561 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 7 | #789 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 9 | #663 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 8 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 6 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 11 | #587 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 16 | #435 | 0.16 |
| 1880 | 9 | #652 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Finis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Finis has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 106 years of records.
Girls and boys named Finis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Finis, and how old are they?
An estimated 470 Americans named Finis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 57 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 623 people named Finis (41 women and girls, 582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 613 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Finis born?
The states with the most babies named Finis are Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 361 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Tennessee | 240 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Arkansas | 115 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Oklahoma | 103 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Kentucky | 102 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Missouri | 97 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Finis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Finis is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Finis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,474 babies since 1880, Finis is the most given (89% of them).
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 Finis
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 Finis and names like it
- Compare Finis and FinesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFinis peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Finis since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Finis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Finis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.