Meaning not yet researched.
Finnegan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 569 in 2025. Its best rank was #378 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #378 in 2021; #526 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Finnegan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#526 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #378.
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Finnegan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 569 boys in 2025. Peak: #378 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 860 (2021).
In 2025, 569 US boys were named Finnegan, making it the 526th most common boys’ name of the year, down 32 places from #494 in 2024. That is 57 fewer than the 626 boys named Finnegan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #378, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 860. For comparison, it was #405 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finnegan in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 7 babies. In all, 13,115 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,690 babies named Finnegan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,149 US boys were named Finnegan; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 860. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,002 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Finnegan ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #102 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Finnigan (1,353 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fynnegan and Fynnigan 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: Fynnegan (25), Fynnigan (24).
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 Finnegan 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 15 | #102 | #178 |
| Maine | 11 | #122 | #102 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #241 | #214 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #272 | — |
| Michigan | 35 | #280 | #329 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #291 | #238 |
| Ohio | 41 | #299 | #300 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #321 | #250 |
| Idaho | 7 | #347 | — |
| Missouri | 18 | #354 | #254 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #377 | #186 |
| Washington | 19 | #386 | #239 |
| Colorado | 16 | #391 | #342 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #408 | #284 |
| Iowa | 8 | #414 | #341 |
| Virginia | 19 | #417 | #328 |
| New York | 39 | #436 | #444 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #441 | #533 |
| Oregon | 8 | #450 | #310 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #463 | #363 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #474 | #488 |
| Kansas | 7 | #484 | #322 |
| Indiana | 14 | #496 | #396 |
| Illinois | 20 | #502 | #293 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #518 | #689 |
| Utah | 6 | #642 | #633 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #647 | #458 |
| Alabama | 6 | #706 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #741 | #352 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #796 | #570 |
| Florida | 18 | #820 | #478 |
| Georgia | 9 | #940 | #463 |
| California | 22 | #996 | #512 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,367 | #952 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,768 | 569 | #526 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,084 | 626 | #494 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,202 | 611 | #491 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,645 | 697 | #446 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,054 | 860 | #378 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,900 | 724 | #409 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,351 | 713 | #431 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,393 | 770 | #412 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,688 | 763 | #410 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,375 | 816 | #393 |
| 2015 | — | — | 765 | #405 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,299 | 632 | #464 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,248 | 610 | #459 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,973 | 548 | #489 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,463 | 550 | #480 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,609 | 467 | #544 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,228 | 484 | #546 |
| 2008 | — | — | 377 | #649 |
| 2007 | — | — | 366 | #655 |
| 2006 | — | — | 264 | #785 |
| 2005 | — | — | 204 | #888 |
| 2004 | — | — | 144 | #1,097 |
| 2003 | — | — | 142 | #1,090 |
| 2002 | — | — | 68 | #1,710 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,638 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,437 |
| 1999 | — | — | 40 | #2,276 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,132 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,509 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,480 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,251 |
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).