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Finnian

#1,487 in 2025Boys' name

Fair

Finnian has been given to 3,206 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,487 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 187 recorded.

Babies named Finnian, 2025

1 in 27,900

Finnian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Finnian: meaning, origin, and history

Fair

Irish

What Finnian means

Finnian means “fair”, associated with fionn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Finnian is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fionnán.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,206 boys were recorded with the name Finnian between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 187 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,059 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,418 in 2020 to #1,487 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,134 in 2015 to #1,487 in 2025.

How common is Finnian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,900
119 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,487
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Finnian 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finnian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Finnians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Finnian was born before 2014 — so the typical Finnian is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,206
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (1,482).

Is Finnian 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
+31
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−69
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−353
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2016 (187)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,059
2016

Spellings of Finnian

Finnian is not the most common spelling — Finnegan is, with 62.8% against Finnian's 15.5%.

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 Finnian is used

Across 2016–2025, Finnian was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 14,855 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 5,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,882
  3. 3Michigan1 in 6,250
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  5. 5Virginia1 in 7,692
  6. 6Maine1 in 8,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 8,333
  8. 8New York1 in 11,111

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.

Finnian around the world

Where Finnian 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
    1996–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2012
    #669
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2020
    #334
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Finnian

People whose public names include Finnian, 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.

Finnian in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Finnian. Linked forms have their own page here.

Finian

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Finnian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 69
Best rank ever
#1,059
2016
Peak year
2016
187 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,206
Count in 2025
119

Names similar to Finnian

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

FinianFinnleyFinnickFinneasDarrianCassianJullianFlorianBastianWillianCillianCaspianFinniganFinlayJavianFavianJayvianFinneganKylianKilianVivianFindleyZavianFindlay

Names with a curve like Finnian

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

TaydenMadduxOskarJetJaelPhineasEwanKarsenAtreyuAmauriZephaniahAvion

Sibling names for Finnian

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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