Finley — #365 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Finley

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,150 babies named Finley between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Finley currently holds the #365 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 1,866 babies received it in a single year. Finley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18,360 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Finley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 13,701 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Finley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,850 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Finley in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Finley 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 22,150 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.