Finnley

What Finnley means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1999, with 7 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Finnley?

US: Steady: #749 in 2015, #757 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #363 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 470 boys got the name (#598 that year). First in the US records in 1999.

How common

• About 1 in 5,024 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,442 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NE (0.79 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.58 per 1,000 boys), IA (0.51 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Finnley is #757 in the US and #487 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 70.7% of US babies named Finnley were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Finley1,017 US · 1,733 E&W
• Finlay50 US · 293 E&W
• Finlee24 US · 4 E&W
• Finnlee17 US
• Fynnley6 US · 5 E&W
• Finnly6 US
• Finnlay0 US · 4 E&W
• Fynley0 US · 3 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 Finnley

Boys

• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Cohen#225Editor’s note Up from #336 in 2015 to #225 in 2025 in the US
• Cash#287Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #287 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• 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
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*

For a sister

• Harlow#309Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Adley#805Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #805 vs #2,006 in 2025
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*

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 Finnley’s. Rank is US 2025.