Finley

What Finley means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Finley yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 57% of US babies named Finley in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Finley?

US: Steady: #326 in 2015, #333 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #36 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 1,307 boys got the name (#265 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,680 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 157 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 578 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (3.64 per 1,000 boys), OR (1.86 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.78 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Finley is #333 in the US and #18 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 57.5% of US babies named Finley were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Finnley340 US · 79 E&W
• Finlay50 US · 293 E&W
• Finlee24 US · 4 E&W
• Finnlee17 US
• Fynnley6 US · 5 E&W
• Finnly6 US
• Finlo0 US · 4 E&W
• Finnlay0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Finley

Boys

• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025

For a sister

• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Lennon#214“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Finley’s. Rank is US 2025.