Finn
Finn reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 167, and has been recorded 35,380 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 206th. About 35,000 Finns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Finn boys named Finn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,380
- Estimated living today
- 35,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 167th
- Rank in 2025
- 206th
- First recorded
- 1918
- Girls / boys
- 431 / 34,949
How old the living Finns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,380 babies given the name since 1918, about 35,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old Norse
From Old English Finnas (“the Sami”) (plural), from Old Norse finnr (“a hunter-gatherer”), from Proto-Germanic *finnaz (which see for more). Possibly originally meaning a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers, particularly the Sami.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Finns
- Finn E. Kydland (born 1943)Norwegian economist
- Finn Wittrock (born 1984)American actor
- Finn Jones (born 1988)British actor
- Finn Bálor (born 1981)Irish professional wrestler
- Finn Christian Jagge (1966–2020)Norwegian Alpine skier
- Finn Surman (born 2003)New Zealand footballer
- Finn Cole (born 1995)British actor
- Finn Helgesen (1919–2011)speed skater
People named Finn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Finn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Finn is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), Alaska (3.1×), New Hampshire (2.4×), Washington (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Finn peaked:
Finn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Finn | 15,119 | 76th |
| Norway boys | Finn | 5,951 | 31st |
| Ireland boys | Finn | 5,321 | 6th |
| Belgium boys | Finn | 4,650 | 13th |
| Switzerland boys | Finn | 3,394 | 23rd |
| Scotland boys | Finn | 3,390 | 13th |
| Austria boys | Finn | 2,798 | 33rd |
| New Zealand boys | Finn | 2,789 | 36th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Finn | 1,706 | 9th |
| France boys | Finn | 320 | 1,007th |
| Belgium girls | Finn | 170 | 502nd |
| Italy boys | Finn | 169 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Finn | 52 | 3,519th |
| Poland boys | Finn | 38 birth registrations | 449th |
| France girls | Finn | 10 | 5,156th |
| Ireland girls | Finn | 3 | 883rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Finn: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Finn | 3,276 | 0.263% | 14th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Finn | 99 | 0.023% | 234th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Finn | 10 | 0.015% | 130th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Finn | 9 | 0.242% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Finn is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.35% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Finn: rank by region
In 2025, Finn was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Finn | 9 | 205 |
| Wallonia | Finn | 317 | 8 |
In 2024, Finn was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Finn | 8 | 1 |
In 2024, Finn was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Finn | 324 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Finn appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (6th), Province of East Flanders (7th), Province of Antwerp (12th), Province of Flemish Brabant (12th) and Province of West Flanders (19th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Finn by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 859 | 13th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Finn among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Finn | 9,481 | 10,680 |
| Finland boys | Finn | 141 | 272 |
| the Netherlands girls | Finn | 107 | 135 |
| Finland girls | Finn | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Finn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.