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Fintan

#6,921 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly white fire or white ancient

Fintan has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #6,921 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Fintan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Fintan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fintan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly white fire or white ancient

Irish

What Fintan means

Fintan may mean “white fire or white ancient”.

Origin, language, and formation

Fintan is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 432 boys were recorded with the name Fintan between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,846 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,792 in 2020 to #6,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,438 in 2015 to #6,921 in 2025.

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 Fintan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,921
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fintan 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fintan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fintans were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
432
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (204).

Is Fintan 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
+490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,129
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,483
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 2010 (27)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,846
2010

Spellings of Fintan

Fintan is not the most common spelling — Finn is, with 61.8% against Fintan's 0.76%.

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 Fintan is used

Across 1910–2025, Fintan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,515,785 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 in —

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. Fintan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fintan around the world

Where Fintan 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2009
    #549
    in 2009
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #253
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #1,930
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1999–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Fintan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,129
Best rank ever
#3,846
2010
Peak year
2010
27 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
432
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Fintan

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

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Sibling names for Fintan

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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