Finan
#3,099 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Finan has been given to 348 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #3,099 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 88 recorded.
Babies named Finan, 2025
1 in 85,000
Finan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Finan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 85,000
- 39 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 43,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,099
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 58,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Finan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Finans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Finan was born before 2023 — so the typical Finan is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 96.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 348
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 96.6% of all recorded uses (336).
Is Finan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −826
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,211
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 44.3%
- Peak was 2023 (88)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.8% average annual change
Spellings of Finan
Finan is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 36.4% against Finan's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Finan is used
Across 2016–2025, Finan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 85,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 50,000
- 2Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5Ohio1 in 100,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8Virginia1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Finan around the world
Where Finan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–2025#1,705in 2025
- Scotland2003–2022#522in 2022
- Northern Ireland2025–2025#395in 2025
- Ireland2004–2024#785in 2024
- Canada2020–2023#2,026in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Finan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Finan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Finan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.