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Finleigh vs Finn

American parents have registered 35,380 Finns since 1880, against 1,090 Finleighs. Finn is still ahead, with 1,717 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Finleigh against Finn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Finleigh Finn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Finn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Finleigh had 110 and Finn had 1,932.

Side by side

  Finleigh Finn
Total US births 1,09035,380
Most in one year 1102,417
Babies in 2025 301,717
Estimated living today 1,10035,000
Median age today 88
Peak year 20152017
Best rank 1,861st girls167th boys
Rank in 2025 4,546th206th
First recorded 20051918
Girls / boys 1,090 / 0431 / 34,949

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Finleigh Finn
England and Wales 11115,171

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Finleigh and Finn.