Uncommon Finnish Boy Names

Finnish names include Finnish-language forms and names shared with neighboring naming traditions. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1880.

64#2,224
Up 272 rank positions in five years
1920

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1963.

195#1,106
Up 304 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1955.

—Unranked
—
1972

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2003.

11#7,207
Down 3,859 rank positions in five years
2019

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1977.

11#7,397
Up 2,636 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1947.

—Unranked
—
2006

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1913.

—Unranked
—
1917

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1916.

—Unranked
—
1971

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1914.

—Unranked
—
1915

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1983.

—Unranked
—
1985

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1916.

—Unranked
—
1918

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1985.

—Unranked
—
1989

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2005.

5#13,749
new
2008

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1915.

—Unranked
—
1915

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1916.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1914.

—Unranked
—
1914

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2025.

6#11,331
new
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1916.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
1917

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1918.

—Unranked
—
1918

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1919.

—Unranked
—
1919

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2011.

—Unranked
—
2011

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2014.

—Unranked
—
2014

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2016.

—Unranked
—
2016

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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