girls:
195 births since 1953
#5521 (3rd percentile)
boys:
47 births since 2013
#4539 (1st percentile)
overall:
242 births since 1953
#7497 (3rd percentile)
The name Finesse is the #7,497 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 242 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,521 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 195 births since 1953. For boys, it ranks #4,539 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 2013.
Finesse first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for girls and 2013 for boys). Birth data for Finesse is available in 27 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (23 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Finesse has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Finesse were girls. Interestingly, until around 2016, the name was more popular for girls (92.0% girls from 1953 to 2015), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2016 to 2023).
For girls, Finesse reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #808) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Finesse reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #897) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Finesse ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 78.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finesse".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Finesse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Finesse is pronounced as fih-NEHS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fuh-NEHS, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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