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Finnegan

#526 in 2025Boys' name

Descendant of Fionnagán

Finnegan has been given to 13,115 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #526 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 860 recorded.

Babies named Finnegan, 2025

1 in 5,830

Finnegan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Finnegan: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Fionnagán

surname transfer

What Finnegan means

Finnegan means “descendant of Fionnagán”, associated with Fionnagáin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin (“descendant of Fionnagán”). Fionnagán is a given name that descends from Old Irish Finnacán, which is typically anglicised as Finnegan itself.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Finnegan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Finnegan is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Finnegan comes through Irish Ó Fionnagáin.

Finnegan is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,011 boys were recorded with the name Finnegan between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 860 in 2021; its best national rank was #378 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #409 in 2020 to #526 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #405 in 2015 to #526 in 2025.

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Finnegan between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,197 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,895 in 2020 to #13,764 in 2025.

How common is Finnegan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,830
569 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,000
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#526
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,040 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Finnegan 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,040 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finnegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Finnegans were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,011
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (6,634).

Is Finnegan 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
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−117
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.2%
Peak was 2021 (860)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#378
2021

Spellings of Finnegan

Finnegan is the most-used spelling, taking 69.6% of the 18,699 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Finnegan is used

Across 2016–2025, Finnegan was most concentrated in Vermont — about 1 in 370 boys, against 1 in 2,225 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in 25,000).

4270 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Vermont1 in 370
  2. 2Maine1 in 407
  3. 3New Hampshire1 in 431
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 990
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 1,111
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 1,176
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 1,190
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 1,220

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.

Geographically, Finnegan is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 94% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Finnegan around the world

Where Finnegan 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #517
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Finnegan

People whose public names include Finnegan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Finnegan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#526
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 117
Best rank ever
#378
2021
Peak year
2021
860 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,011
Count in 2025
569

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,131
Best rank ever
#8,197
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Finnegan

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

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Names with a curve like Finnegan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Finnegan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Finnegan

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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