Finley

Finley is the 946th most common surname in the United States, shared by 36,189 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,259.

By the numbers

People: 36,189
Rank: 946th
How common: 1 in 8,259
Per 100,000: 12.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Variant of Finlay.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Finley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.5%
Black, not Hispanic 20.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Finley

Michael Finley (born 1973)American basketball player
Moses I. Finley (1912–1986)American-born British academic and classical scholar
William Finley (1942–2012)American actor (1940/1942–2012)
Mason Finley (born 1990)American shot putter and discus thrower
Greg Finley (born 1984)American actor born 1984
Cameron Finley (born 1987)American actor

People named Finley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Finley

Also a first name

Finley has been given to 42,288 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.