Finnigan
Finnigan was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,615 among boys’ names; 1,353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Finnigan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Finnigan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Finnigan?
#2,615 among boys’ names, 2025
Finnigan fell from #1,919 in 2015 to #2,615 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.7 to 29.3 per million.
103 babies in 2016, the peak
Finnigan peaked in 2016, when 103 boys were given it, #1,591 among boys’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,615 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,763 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,398 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,174 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,005 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | 76 | #1,928 | 44.0 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,094 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 83 | #1,826 | 45.7 |
| 2017 | 74 | #1,943 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,591 | 54.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,919 | 39.7 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,928 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,213 | 31.2 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,274 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,213 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,336 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,208 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,020 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,467 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,406 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,264 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,905 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,760 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,835 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,597 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,677 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,132 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Finnigan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Finnigan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Finnigan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Finnigan, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,353 Americans ever recorded as Finnigan. The median Finnigan alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 947 people named Finnigan (20 women and girls, 927 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 438 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 903 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,468 babies since 1880, Finnigan is the second most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 625 babies (8.0%), again the second 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 Finnigan
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 Finnigan and names like it
- Compare Finnigan and FinneganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFinnigan peaked in 2016.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Finnigan since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Finnigan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Finnigan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.