Finnegan
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #526 for boys in 2025, 569 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 860 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,011since 1995
Finnegan over time
Rank among boys' names. Finnegan has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #526 | 569 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #492 | 626 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #491 | 611 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #446 | 697 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #378 | 860 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #409 | 724 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #431 | 713 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #412 | 770 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #410 | 763 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #393 | 816 |
| 2015 | — | #405 | 765 | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #464 | 632 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #459 | 610 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #489 | 548 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #480 | 550 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #544 | 467 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #545 | 484 |
| 2008 | — | #649 | 377 | |
| 2007 | — | #654 | 366 | |
| 2006 | — | #784 | 264 | |
| 2005 | — | #888 | 204 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,095 | 144 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,090 | 142 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,708 | 68 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,629 | 72 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,263 | 40 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Finnegan! It came in at #6,992, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Finnegan
- 34 spots since 2024 (#492 → #526)
- 117 spots since 2020 (#409 → #526)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#405 → #526)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 2005 (#1,095 → #888)
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 2022 (#378 → #446)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2021 at #378 (860 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,034 boys born in 2021 were named Finnegan (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,002 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 51.0% of all boys named Finnegan (6,634) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 83 | #2,263 (1999) | #5,894 |
| 2000s | 2,207 | #545 (2009) | #1,047 |
| 2010s | 6,634 | #393 (2016) | #449 |
| 2020s | 4,087 | #378 (2021) | #457 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Finnegan in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 271,957 of them was named Finnegan, which outranked 32.3% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,407Zebedee8
- #6,407Zedekiah8
- #6,407Zedrick8
- #6,992Finnegan7
- #6,992Abayomi7
- #6,992Abdullahi7
- #6,992Abu7
- #7,792Aadam6
- #7,792Aaran6
- #7,792Aaronmichael6
Tied with 799 names at #6,992; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.