Finnegan — #492 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Finnegan

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,441 babies named Finnegan between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Finnegan currently holds the #492 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 860 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Finnegan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,634 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Finnegan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,004 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Finnegan in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Finnegan 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 12,441 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.