Finis
Finis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 435th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192270 births
- Best rank
- #435in 1881
- Since 1880
- 2,195people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,195 boys have been named Finis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 70 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 70 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Finis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 98 | |
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 96 | |
| 1910s | 356 | |
| 1920s | 529 | |
| 1930s | 369 | |
| 1940s | 270 | |
| 1950s | 187 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 68 | |
| 1980s | 33 | |
| 1990s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Finis was the 802nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Finis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bedfordpeak 1924
- Thorntonpeak 1921
- Hilliardpeak 1920
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Burleypeak 1921
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Albertpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.