Finney

16,215 people in the United States were counted with the surname Finney in the 2020 census, making it the 2,190th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,215
Rank: 2,190th
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from several minor places in Cheshire, from either Old English finig (“heap”) or finn (“coarse grass”) + ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.8%
Black, not Hispanic 22.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Finney

Albert Finney (1936–2019)British actor
Tom Finney (1922–2014)English footballer
Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875)American religious leader, writer and educator
Jack Finney (1911–1995)American novelist and short story writer
Hal Finney (1956–2014)American software developer
Yasmin Finney (born 2003)British actress and Internet personality
Tommy Finney (born 1952)Northern Irish footballer
Joan Finney (1925–2001)American politician

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

Surnames like Finney

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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.