Finn

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Finn is ranked 198th among boys in 2024 (1,791 births). Its best rank was 166th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #198down 12 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,7910.10% of boys
Peak year: 20172,381 births
Best rank: #166in 2018
Since 1918: 33,229people given the name

Babies named Finn, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

33,229 boys have been named Finn in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 2,381 births — 0.13% of all boys recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 53%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Finn
1910s	10
1920s	5
1930s	6
1950s	29
1960s	77
1970s	34
1980s	59
1990s	405
2000s	4,916
2010s	17,595
2020s	10,093

In 2017, its biggest year

Finn was the 167th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.

Names that rose and fell with Finn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Fynn1,624 ever

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.