Finn
Finn was given to 1,702 boys in 2025, #206 among boys’ names; 35,380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,000 Americans named Finn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Finn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Finn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Finn is “a male given name from Irish.”
An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.
/ˈfɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Finn?
#206 among boys’ names, 2025
Finn rose from #209 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 1.0 per 1,000.
2,417 babies in 2017, the peak
Finn peaked in 2017, when 2,417 babies were given it (2,382 boys, #167 among boys’ names). The 1,717 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,702 | #206 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,799 | #198 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,921 | #187 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,144 | #177 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,092 | #184 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,147 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,243 | #173 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 2,329 | #166 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 2,382 | #167 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 2,297 | #175 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,906 | #209 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,585 | #234 | 0.83 |
| 2013 | 1,456 | #250 | 0.77 |
| 2012 | 1,216 | #291 | 0.64 |
| 2011 | 1,090 | #303 | 0.57 |
| 2010 | 1,093 | #300 | 0.57 |
| 2009 | 920 | #342 | 0.46 |
| 2008 | 850 | #366 | 0.42 |
| 2007 | 783 | #387 | 0.38 |
| 2006 | 592 | #457 | 0.29 |
| 2005 | 458 | #529 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 400 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 300 | #659 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 213 | #805 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 209 | #801 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 192 | #834 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,078 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,286 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,048 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,364 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,253 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,476 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,669 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,386 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Finn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 35,380 Americans recorded as Finn, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 girls and 1,702 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Finn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Finn, and how old are they?
35,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 35,380 Americans ever recorded as Finn. The median Finn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 24,643 people named Finn (439 women and girls, 24,204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,790 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 54 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Finn born?
The states with the most babies named Finn are California, Texas and New York, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 160 | #232 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 99 | #373 | 0.5× |
| New York | 98 | #200 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 80 | #262 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #161 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 72 | #164 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 64 | #112 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 60 | #221 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 58 | #140 | 1.6× |
| Utah | 52 | #98 | 2.0× |
Where Finn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Finn is most over-represented in Utah: since 1918 it was given 2.0 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 Finn 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 39,260 babies since 1880, Finn is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,717 of their 1,907 babies (90%), again the most given.
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 Finn
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 Finn and names like it
- Compare Finn and FynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFinn peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Finn since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Finn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Finn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Finn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.