Finnley
Finnley is given to both girls and boys: 141 girls and 340 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,513 among girls’ names and #757 among boys’, #1,201 among all names counting both); 8,151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,090 Americans named Finnley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Finnley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Finnley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Finnley is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Finley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Finnley?
#757 among boys’ names, 2025
Finnley fell from #750 in 2015 to #757 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.17 to 0.20 per 1,000.
647 babies in 2022, the peak
Finnley peaked in 2022, when 647 babies were given it (470 boys, #599 among boys’ names). The 481 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141 | #1,513 | 340 | #757 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,972 | 371 | #715 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,536 | 409 | #665 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,328 | 470 | #599 |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,304 | 470 | #591 |
| 2020 | 172 | #1,291 | 449 | #611 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,334 | 464 | #597 |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,165 | 438 | #616 |
| 2017 | 202 | #1,201 | 426 | #615 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,296 | 423 | #631 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 174 | #1,363 | 323 | #750 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,566 | 260 | #853 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,783 | 178 | #1,058 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,959 | 121 | #1,385 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,224 | 108 | #1,499 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,760 | 108 | #1,507 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,964 | 93 | #1,692 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,955 | 67 | #2,071 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,423 | 41 | #2,882 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,954 | 25 | #3,924 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,629 | 31 | #3,265 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,962 | 15 | #5,334 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 16 | #4,886 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,166 | 5 | #11,245 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,133 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Finnley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,151 Americans recorded as Finnley, 31% are girls and 69% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Finnley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Finnley, and how old are they?
8,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,151 Americans ever recorded as Finnley. The median Finnley alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 4,443 people named Finnley (1,521 women and girls, 2,922 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,862 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,070 |
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 Finnley born?
The states with the most babies named Finnley are California, Ohio and New York, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #916 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 25 | #564 | 0.9× |
| New York | 25 | #750 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #639 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 20 | #494 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,965 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #420 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 18 | #652 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 18 | #543 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #601 | 0.8× |
Where Finnley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Finnley is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1999 it was given 2.1 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 Finnley 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,905 babies since 1880, Finnley is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 481 of their 562 babies (86%), 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 Finnley
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 Finnley and names like it
- Compare Finnley and FinlayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFinnley peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Finnley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Finnley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Finnley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Finnley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.