Meaning not yet researched.
Finnian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 119 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,059 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,059 in 2016; #1,487 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Finnian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,487 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,059.
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Finnian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 119 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,059 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 187 (2016).
In 2025, 119 US boys were named Finnian, making it the 1,487th most common boys’ name of the year, up 31 places from #1,518 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 117 boys named Finnian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,059, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 187. For comparison, it was #1,134 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finnian in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 5 babies. In all, 3,206 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,482 babies named Finnian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,388 US boys were named Finnian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,354 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Finnian ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #625 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Finian, Finnan and Finan 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Finian (547), Finnan (363), Finan (348), Finnean (83), Finnin (12).
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 Finnian 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #625 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #644 | #752 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #845 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #871 | #1,079 |
| Michigan | 7 | #936 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,053 | #875 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,141 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,336 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,689 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,058 | #1,481 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 119 | #1,487 |
| 2024 | — | — | 117 | #1,518 |
| 2023 | — | — | 109 | #1,593 |
| 2022 | — | — | 122 | #1,483 |
| 2021 | — | — | 127 | #1,431 |
| 2020 | — | — | 122 | #1,418 |
| 2019 | — | — | 148 | #1,267 |
| 2018 | — | — | 162 | #1,176 |
| 2017 | — | — | 175 | #1,107 |
| 2016 | — | — | 187 | #1,059 |
| 2015 | — | — | 167 | #1,134 |
| 2014 | — | — | 125 | #1,368 |
| 2013 | — | — | 127 | #1,341 |
| 2012 | — | — | 130 | #1,318 |
| 2011 | — | — | 133 | #1,287 |
| 2010 | — | — | 128 | #1,334 |
| 2009 | — | — | 132 | #1,318 |
| 2008 | — | — | 136 | #1,277 |
| 2007 | — | — | 146 | #1,209 |
| 2006 | — | — | 123 | #1,333 |
| 2005 | — | — | 111 | #1,355 |
| 2004 | — | — | 63 | #1,941 |
| 2003 | — | — | 73 | #1,690 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,901 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,395 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,346 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,512 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,749 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,936 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,390 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,252 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,102 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,195 |
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).