Finnan
#2,899 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Finnan has been given to 363 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #2,899 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 68 recorded.
Babies named Finnan, 2025
1 in 77,100
Finnan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Finnan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 77,100
- 43 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 39,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,899
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 53,441 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Finnan 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finnan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Finnans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Finnan was born before 2022 — so the typical Finnan is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 82.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 363
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (298).
Is Finnan 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
- −327
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +545
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 63.2%
- Peak was 2023 (68)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.7% average annual change
Spellings of Finnan
Finnan is not the most common spelling — Finn is, with 60.7% against Finnan's 0.63%.
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 Finnan is used
Across 1910–2025, Finnan was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,016,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Tennessee1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Washington1 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. Finnan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Finnan around the world
Where Finnan 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 & Wales1998–2025#1,798in 2025
- Scotland2020–2025#762in 2025
- Ireland1998–2024#785in 2024
- Canada2019–2024#2,550in 2024
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Finnan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Finnan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Finnan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.