girls:
406 births since 1999
#5310 (7th percentile)
boys:
31.4k births since 1918
#649 (86th percentile)
overall:
31.8k births since 1918
#1423 (82nd percentile)
The name Finn is the #1,423 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,820 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 81.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #649 (85.9% percentile) for all time with 31,414 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,310 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 406 births since 1999.
Finn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Finn is available in 64 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (64 years for boys and 25 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 Finn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Finn reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 82.1% percentile (ranked #164) with 1,198 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 1,203 births per million (ranked 81.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Finn ranks #185 for boys (79.8% percentile) with 1,041 births per million, which is 86.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Finn reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #919) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Finn ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 46.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finn".
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