Finnian
About 3,206 American babies have been named Finnian since 1993, most of them around 2016. In 2025 it ranked 1,486th. About 3,200 Finnians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Finnian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,206
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 1,055th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,486th
- First recorded
- 1993
How old the living Finnians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,206 babies given the name since 1993, about 3,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Irish
From Irish, variant of Fionnán; see fionn (“fair”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Finnians
- Finnian of Clonard (470–549)Irish saint
- Finnian of Moville (495–589)Irish missionary
People named Finnian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Finnian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Finnian is most concentrated in Washington (4.0×), Massachusetts (3.4×), Colorado (2.2×), Virginia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Finnian peaked:
Finnian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Finnian | 720 | 907th |
| Ireland boys | Finnian | 191 | 192nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Finnian | 31 | 311th |
| Scotland boys | Finnian | 6 | 584th |
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.
Related names
Finnian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.