Finneus
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Finneus has been given to 123 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2017, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Finneus, 2021
1 in 308,000
Finneus 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Finneus?
Finneus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 308,000
- 11 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 159,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 213,614 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Finneus sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 213,614 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finneus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Finneuss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Finneus was born before 2014 — so the typical Finneus is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 67.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 123
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 67.5% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Finneus 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 2017 (16)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 49.1% average annual change
Spellings of Finneus
Finneus is not the most common spelling — Finneas is, with 90.2% against Finneus's 9.8%.
- Finneas90.2%1,129
- Finneus9.8%123
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.
Finneus around the world
Where Finneus 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.
- Canada2007–2007#2,479in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Finneus by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Finneus
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Finneus
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.