boys:
3k births since 1993
#2304 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1993
#4977 (36th percentile)
The name Finnian is the #4,977 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,970 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 35.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,304 (49.7% percentile) for all time with 2,970 births since 1993.
Finnian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for boys in 1993).
For boys, Finnian reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #739) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 92 births per million (ranked 19.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Finnian ranks #807 for boys (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 64.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finnian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Finnian is pronounced as FIH-nee-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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