Finn
For 2025 the count puts Finn at #206 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. On the books since 1918, peaking in 2017: 34,949 American children so far.
What Finn carries
Finn · Celtic
“white”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Finn’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Finn, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Finn since 1918
Finn peaked in 2017 at #167; #206 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Finn is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Finn runs strongest in Vermont at 0.83% in 2025, then Wyoming and Maine.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Finn
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
Freya
#176 in 2025
Faith
#254 in 2025
Browse: names starting with F · Celtic names · all names
About Finn
How common is Finn today?
For 2025 the count puts Finn at #206 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. The chart above draws the whole run since 1918, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Finn mean?
The reference we cite records “white”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Finn?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Rory, Oscar and Ronan, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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