Finnian
Finnian was given to 119 boys in 2025, #1,487 among boys’ names; 3,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,170 Americans named Finnian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Finnian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Finnian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Finnian is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “fair” (fionn).
From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Finnian?
#1,487 among boys’ names, 2025
Finnian fell from #1,134 in 2015 to #1,487 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 87.1 to 69.7 per million.
187 babies in 2016, the peak
Finnian peaked in 2016, when 187 boys were given it, #1,059 among boys’ names. The 119 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,487 | 69.7 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,518 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,593 | 63.7 |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,483 | 69.9 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,431 | 72.6 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,418 | 70.7 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,267 | 82.5 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,176 | 89.2 |
| 2017 | 175 | #1,107 | 94.5 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,059 | 98.5 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 167 | #1,134 | 87.1 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,368 | 65.1 |
| 2013 | 127 | #1,341 | 67.1 |
| 2012 | 130 | #1,318 | 68.5 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,287 | 70.0 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,334 | 66.7 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,318 | 66.5 |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,277 | 66.7 |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,209 | 70.3 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,333 | 59.8 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,354 | 55.6 |
| 2004 | 63 | #1,937 | 31.7 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,687 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,897 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,391 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,342 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,507 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,745 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,931 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,383 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,245 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,096 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,189 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Finnian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Finnian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Finnian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Finnian, and how old are they?
3,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,206 Americans ever recorded as Finnian. The median Finnian alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,405 people named Finnian (39 women and girls, 2,366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
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 Finnian born?
The states with the most babies named Finnian are Pennsylvania, California and Massachusetts, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #871 | 1.4× |
| California | 7 | #2,058 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #644 | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 7 | #936 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,689 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,053 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,141 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #845 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,336 | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 5 | #625 | 0.1× |
Where Finnian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Finnian is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1993 it was given 2.3 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 Finnian 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 4,547 babies since 1880, Finnian is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 213 babies (56%), 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 Finnian
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 Finnian and names like it
- Compare Finnian and FinianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFinnian peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Finnian since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Finnian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Finnian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Finnian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.