Finnegan
Where Finnegan comes from
Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin (“descendant of Fionnagán”). Fionnagán is a given name that descends from Old Irish Finnacán, which is typically anglicised as Finnegan itself.
Along the way
- 1995First appearance#6,992 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2021Peak, #378860 babies named Finnegan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
No widely known Finnegan turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.