Meaning not yet researched.
Finlay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,154 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,154 in 2015; #2,614 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Finlay in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,614 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,154.
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Finlay: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,154 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 64 (2015).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Finlay, making it the 2,614th most common boys’ name of the year, down 130 places from #2,484 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 55 boys named Finlay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,154, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #2,154 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Finlay, making it the 11,258th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #6,363, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19. For comparison, it was #10,376 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finlay in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 1,306 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 571 babies named Finlay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 512 US boys were named Finlay; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Finlay ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,632 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Finley (42,288 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Finnlay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Finnlay (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Finlay in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,632 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,057 | #1,673 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,258 | 50 | #2,614 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,484 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,972 | 50 | #2,625 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,556 | 48 | #2,731 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,559 | 54 | #2,473 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,541 | 50 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,893 | 38 | #3,117 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,774 | 55 | #2,399 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,363 | 56 | #2,327 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,739 | 56 | #2,346 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,376 | 64 | #2,154 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,298 | 34 | #3,253 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,832 | 41 | #2,818 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,358 | 37 | #3,072 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,641 | 35 | #3,192 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,886 | 30 | #3,561 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,226 | 50 | #2,542 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,992 | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,948 | 44 | #2,733 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,063 | 50 | #2,459 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,120 | 42 | #2,632 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,968 | 26 | #3,563 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,488 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,567 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,886 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #3,969 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,138 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,850 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,886 |
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).