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Finbar

Boys' name

Fair + head, top, through Fionnbharr

Finbar has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Finbar, 2022

1 in 423,000

Finbar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Finbar: meaning, origin, and history

Fair + head, top, through Fionnbharr

Irish

What Finbar means

Finbar belongs to the name family reached through Finbar → Fionnbharr. Its meaning is “fair + head, top”.

Origin, language, and formation

Finbar is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Finbar comes through Irish Fionnbharr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fionnbharr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 boys were recorded with the name Finbar between 1998 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,637 in 2009.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Finbar?

Finbar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Finbar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finbar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Finbars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Finbar was born before 2008 — so the typical Finbar is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Finbar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (16)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,637
2009

Spellings of Finbar

Finbar is not the most common spelling — Einar is, with 46.5% against Finbar's 4.4%.

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 Finbar is used

Across 1910–2025, Finbar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Finbar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Finbar around the world

Where Finbar 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2024
    #339
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Finbar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,637
2009
Peak year
2009
16 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Finbar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FinnbarFinnlyFinleeFinnanFinchFintanFinnleeFinianFinneanFindlayFindleyFinanFintonFinlayFinnisFinneusFineasFinbarrFinesFinasFinFinneasJabbarFinnie

Sibling names for Finbar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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