Finnan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Finnian, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Finnan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,134 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,134 in 2023; #2,900 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Finnan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,900 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,134.
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Finnan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,134 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 68 (2023).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Finnan, making it the 2,900th most common boys’ name of the year, down 328 places from #2,572 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 52 boys named Finnan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,134, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finnan in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 6 babies. In all, 363 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 298 babies named Finnan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 311 US boys were named Finnan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Finnian (3,206 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Finnan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
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).