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Finnbar

Boys' name

Variant of Finbar

Finnbar has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2014, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Finnbar, 2023

1 in 663,000

Finnbar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Finnbar: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Finbar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Finnbar means

Finnbar is a variant of Finbar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Finnbar is used in Irish (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɪn.bɑɹ/ and /ˈfɪn.bɑː/ for Finnbar.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Finnbar → Finbar → Fionnbharr. The family’s meaning is “fair + head, top”, recorded in Irish with the source elements fionn and barr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Finbar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 boys were recorded with the name Finnbar between 2000 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2014; its best national rank was #7,677 in 2000.

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 Finnbar?

Finnbar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Finnbar 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finnbar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Finnbars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Finnbar was born before 2009 — so the typical Finnbar is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
81
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Finnbar 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 2014 (9)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,677
2000

Spellings of Finnbar

Finnbar is not the most common spelling — Finnian is, with 72.6% against Finnbar's 1.8%.

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.

Finnbar around the world

Where Finnbar 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
    1998–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Finnbar 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
#7,677
2000
Peak year
2014
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
81
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Finnbar

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

FinbarFinneanFinnlyFinbarrFinnleeFindlayFindleyFinneusFinesseFintonFinleeFinnanFinnisFinchFineasFintanFinneasFinianFinesFinasFinnlayFinnickFinanFinland

Sibling names for Finnbar

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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