girls:
5 births since 1914
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1880
#2687 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1880
#5592 (28th percentile)
The name Finis is the #5,592 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,200 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 27.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,687 (41.4% percentile) for all time with 2,195 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1914.
Finis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls). Birth data for Finis is available in 106 out of the 130 years between 1880 and 2009 (106 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Finis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Finis reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 11.9% percentile (ranked #481) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 148 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
For girls, Finis reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #511) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1914.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Finis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Finis is pronounced as FIH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FEE-nihs, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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