Finnly

#11,103 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Finnly has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #11,103 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.

Babies named Finnly, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Finnly over time

In 2025, Finnly went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20072025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Finnly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,103
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Finnly 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Finnly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Finnlys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Finnly was born before 2017 — so the typical Finnly is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
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2010s — 75.6% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Finnly 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
−1,213
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,881
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2018 (13)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,464
2018

Spellings of Finnly

Finnly is not the most common spelling — Finn is, with 55.9% against Finnly's 0.13%.

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.

Finnly around the world

Where Finnly 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
    2000–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Finnly by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,103
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,213
Best rank ever
#6,464
2018
Peak year
2018
13 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,334
2015
Peak year
2007
5 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Finnly

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

Sibling names for Finnly

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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