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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 293,178 of them was named Finnegan, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,347Zykeriah7
- #13,347Zyriana7
- #13,347Zyrianna7
- #14,824Finnegan6
- #14,824Aalani6
- #14,824Aaleiyah6
- #14,824Aaliyan6
- #16,764Aailiyah5
- #16,764Aalanah5
- #16,764Aalayna5
Tied with 1,939 names at #14,824; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 3,453 of them was named Finnegan, which outranked 96.7% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.