Finlay

girls:

196 births since 2004

#5520 (3rd percentile)

boys:

996 births since 1918

#3596 (22nd percentile)

overall:

1.2k births since 1918

#6548 (15th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finlay".

1918 2023 19182023

Key Statistics

Total Births
196
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
2004
Peak Percentile
1.5%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#918
Current Rank
#947
Female statistics
Total Births
996
Peak Births
64
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
6.5%
Current Percentile
4.8%
Peak Rank
#530
Current Rank
#867
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Finlay

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Finlay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 52.4% confident that Finlay is pronounced as FIHN-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is FIHN-lay, at 47.6% confidence.

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52.4%
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47.6%
FIHN-lay (2 syllables)
47.6% confidence
F IH1 N L EY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Finlay. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Finlay, please vote using the thumbs up button.

FIHND-lee (2 syllables)
2 names 748 births
F IH1 N D L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

FAIND-lee (2 syllables)
2 names 748 births
F AY1 N D L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like F IH1 N L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.