Finn

20,121 people in the United States were counted with the surname Finn in the 2020 census, making it the 1,737th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 20,121
Rank: 1,737th
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Finn

John Finn (born 1952)American actor
Neil Finn (born 1958)New Zealand musician
Pat Finn (1965–2025)American actor
Liam Finn (born 1983)Australian-born New Zealand musician
Jerry Finn (1969–2008)American record producer
Michelle Finn-Burrell (born 1965)athletics competitor
George Finn (born 1990)Georgian-American actor
Mickey Finn (1947–2003)British percussionist

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

Surnames like Finn

Also a first name

Finn has been given to 35,380 American babies as a first name since 1918, 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.