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Finnick vs Finnley

American parents have registered 8,151 Finnleys since 1880, against 1,465 Finnicks. Finnley is still ahead, with 481 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Finnick against Finnley, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Finnick Finnley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Finnley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Finnick had 137 and Finnley had 471.

Side by side

  Finnick Finnley
Total US births 1,4658,151
Most in one year 159647
Babies in 2025 125481
Estimated living today 1,5008,100
Median age today 57
Peak year 20232021
Best rank 1,234th boys591st boys
Rank in 2025 1,436th757th
First recorded 20121999
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4652,493 / 5,658

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Finnleys alive today are over 7; half the Finnicks are over 5. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Finnick Finnley
England and Wales 812,809

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Finnick and Finnley.