Finlay — #2476 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Finlay

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,051 babies named Finlay between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Finlay currently holds the #2476 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Finlay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 196 additional births since 2004.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Finlay performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 446 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Finlay shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 107 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Finlay in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Finlay 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 1,051 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.