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Finch: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,905 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,905 in 2022; #5,945 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Finch in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,945 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #4,905.
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Finch: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,905 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 20 (2022).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Finch, making it the 5,945th most common boys’ name of the year, down 821 places from #5,124 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 19 boys named Finch in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,905, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #6,088 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finch in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 10 babies. In all, 204 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 107 babies named Finch.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 147 US boys were named Finch; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).