Meaning not yet researched.
Finn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,702 in 2025. Its best rank was #166 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #166 in 2018; #206 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Finn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#206 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #166.
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Finn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,702 boys in 2025. Peak: #166 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 2,382 (2017).
In 2025, 1,702 US boys were named Finn, making it the 206th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #198 in 2024. That is 97 fewer than the 1,799 boys named Finn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #166, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,382, in 2017. For comparison, it was #209 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finn in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 35,380 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 17,808 babies named Finn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 21,056 US boys were named Finn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 2,382. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,004 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Finn ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #41 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Fynn (1,689 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fionn, Fin and Fenn 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: Fionn (682), Fin (251), Fenn (63), Fion (37), Fen (28), Phinn (23), Ffion (10), Fyn (5).
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 Finn 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 10 | #41 | #86 |
| Maine | 17 | #71 | #113 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | #91 | #130 |
| New Hampshire | 16 | #95 | #124 |
| Utah | 52 | #98 | #64 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #103 | #171 |
| Massachusetts | 64 | #112 | #99 |
| Alaska | 7 | #119 | #117 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #129 | #85 |
| Montana | 10 | #134 | #91 |
| Oregon | 30 | #137 | #150 |
| Connecticut | 27 | #137 | #151 |
| Washington | 58 | #140 | #155 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #142 | #137 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #146 | #195 |
| Iowa | 27 | #157 | #151 |
| Minnesota | 42 | #159 | #127 |
| Colorado | 45 | #159 | #162 |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #161 | #169 |
| Illinois | 72 | #164 | #190 |
| Wisconsin | 38 | #165 | #165 |
| Idaho | 15 | #180 | #102 |
| Nebraska | 14 | #188 | #222 |
| New York | 98 | #200 | #223 |
| Kansas | 20 | #201 | #216 |
| Alabama | 27 | #209 | #330 |
| Indiana | 40 | #209 | #229 |
| Virginia | 42 | #212 | #181 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #215 | #208 |
| Michigan | 46 | #215 | #158 |
| Ohio | 60 | #221 | #192 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #224 | #181 |
| New Jersey | 42 | #225 | #182 |
| California | 160 | #232 | #259 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #234 | #227 |
| Maryland | 24 | #236 | #190 |
| Georgia | 48 | #260 | #307 |
| Florida | 80 | #262 | #234 |
| Tennessee | 34 | #263 | #290 |
| Arizona | 30 | #268 | #293 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #270 | #277 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #292 | #344 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #301 | #309 |
| Missouri | 22 | #304 | #199 |
| North Carolina | 36 | #327 | #206 |
| Nevada | 9 | #333 | #340 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #360 | #238 |
| Texas | 99 | #373 | #376 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #381 | #298 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,244 | 1,702 | #206 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,441 | 1,799 | #198 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,754 | 1,921 | #187 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,764 | 2,144 | #177 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,820 | 2,092 | #184 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,212 | 2,147 | #179 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,080 | 2,243 | #173 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,512 | 2,329 | #166 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,168 | 2,382 | #167 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,899 | 2,297 | #175 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,180 | 1,906 | #209 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,538 | 1,585 | #234 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,512 | 1,456 | #250 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,941 | 1,216 | #291 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,548 | 1,090 | #303 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,003 | 1,093 | #300 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,174 | 920 | #342 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,638 | 850 | #366 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,681 | 783 | #387 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,766 | 592 | #457 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,075 | 458 | #529 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,981 | 400 | #569 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,669 | 300 | #659 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,292 | 213 | #806 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,113 | 209 | #802 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,765 | 192 | #836 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,233 | 124 | #1,080 |
| 1998 | — | — | 93 | #1,289 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,972 |
| 1996 | — | — | 42 | #2,053 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,369 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,259 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,482 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,657 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,076 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,557 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,291 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,658 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,117 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,017 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,688 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,702 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,741 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,118 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,557 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,307 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,890 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,114 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,960 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,408 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,629 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,689 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,850 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,246 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,921 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,255 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,187 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,451 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,192 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,670 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,129 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,050 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,550 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,277 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,392 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,387 |
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).