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Findlay

#11,102 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Fair warrior/hero, through Finlay

Findlay has been given to 323 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,102 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.

Babies named Findlay, 2025

1 in 553,000

Findlay over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Findlay over time

In 2025, Findlay went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20032025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Findlay: meaning, origin, and history

Fair warrior/hero, through Finlay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Findlay means

Findlay belongs to the name family reached through Findlay → Finlay. Its meaning is “fair warrior/hero”.

Origin, language, and formation

Findlay is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Finlay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 285 boys were recorded with the name Findlay between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,130 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,749 in 2020 to #11,102 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,437 in 2015 to #11,102 in 2025.

In the United States, 38 girls were recorded with the name Findlay between 2013 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #11,158 in 2016.

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 Findlay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,102
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Findlay 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Findlay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Findlays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Findlay was born before 2016 — so the typical Findlay is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Findlay 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
−2,564
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,353
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,665
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2016 (25)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,130
2016

Spellings of Findlay

Findlay is not the most common spelling — Finley is, with 60.2% against Findlay's 0.89%.

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 Findlay is used

Across 1910–2025, Findlay was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,333,704 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 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. Findlay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Findlay around the world

Where Findlay 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
    1996–2024
    #1,758
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #198
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Findlay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,102
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,353
Best rank ever
#4,130
2016
Peak year
2016
25 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,158
2016
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Findlay

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

FinlayFindleyFinnleeFinnlayFinleeFinnanFintanFinneanFinneasFinianFinnickFinanNikolayFinchFinnlyMacaulayFinneusFinbarrFinniganFinnianFinnbarFinbarNilayFinnley

Sibling names for Findlay

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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