How rare is the name Finnley?

4,443 people in the United States have the first name Finnley, about 1 in 67,979. It ranks #4,278 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

FINNLEY

#4,278

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,443
About
1 in 67,979
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,443 people named Finnley, 88.6% reported their origin as White, 5.3% as two or more races and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 65.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Finnley peaked in 2022, when 647 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19992025
Peak year
2022
Births that year
647
In 2025*
481 ▼26%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 8,151 babies have been given the name since 1999. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Finnley by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,055. The largest share of babies named Finnley, 87.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1990s#35,6167
2000s#5,828442
2010s#1,2754,291
2020s#1,0553,411
Generation Z 1997–1212.7%
2013 and later87.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Finnley is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Finnley has been most common in Oregon (3.2×), Colorado (3×), and Washington (3×), and least common in Alabama (0.33×).

6,006 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Finnley, most common first.

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