Meaning not yet researched.
Finnley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #591 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #591 in 2021; #757 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Finnley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#757 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #591.
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Finnley: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 boys in 2025. Peak: #591 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 470 (2022).
In 2025, 340 US boys were named Finnley, making it the 757th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #715 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 371 boys named Finnley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #591, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 470, in 2022. For comparison, it was #750 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 141 US girls were named Finnley, making it the 1,513th most common girls’ name of the year, up 459 places from #1,972 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 100 girls named Finnley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,165, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 207. For comparison, it was #1,363 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Finnley in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 7 babies. In all, 8,151 US babies have been given the name, 31% of them girls and 69% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,291 babies named Finnley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,260 US boys were named Finnley; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 470. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,024 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Finnley ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #350 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) and Finlee (1,406 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fynnlee 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: Fynnlee (78).
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 Finnley 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 7 | #350 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #420 | #431 |
| Utah | 10 | #447 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #451 | #404 |
| Indiana | 15 | #462 | #493 |
| Iowa | 7 | #462 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #488 | #326 |
| Oregon | 7 | #493 | #583 |
| Missouri | 12 | #494 | #577 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #496 | #629 |
| Washington | 13 | #543 | #436 |
| Ohio | 18 | #564 | #744 |
| Colorado | 9 | #586 | #720 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #601 | #726 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #639 | #516 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #645 | #753 |
| Maryland | 7 | #650 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #652 | #464 |
| New York | 19 | #750 | #1,028 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #803 | #564 |
| Illinois | 10 | #823 | #1,110 |
| Virginia | 8 | #828 | #923 |
| California | 25 | #916 | #1,060 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #961 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #964 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,026 | #611 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,261 | #861 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,965 | #1,119 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141 | #1,513 | 340 | #757 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,972 | 371 | #715 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,536 | 409 | #665 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,328 | 470 | #599 |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,304 | 470 | #591 |
| 2020 | 172 | #1,291 | 449 | #611 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,334 | 464 | #597 |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,165 | 438 | #616 |
| 2017 | 202 | #1,201 | 426 | #615 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,296 | 423 | #631 |
| 2015 | 174 | #1,363 | 323 | #750 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,566 | 260 | #853 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,783 | 178 | #1,058 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,959 | 121 | #1,385 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,224 | 108 | #1,499 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,761 | 108 | #1,507 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,965 | 93 | #1,693 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,956 | 67 | #2,072 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,426 | 41 | #2,884 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,956 | 25 | #3,926 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,634 | 31 | #3,269 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,969 | 15 | #5,339 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,891 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,172 | 5 | #11,252 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,140 |
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).