Finlay vs Josefine

Head to head

Ranks are only compared within one published list and one year. Two ranks from different years, from a boys' and a girls' list, or from different registrars are not comparable, so they are not placed side by side.

• England and Wales · Girls

  In 2016, Finlay was ranked #5785 and Josefine #4096 among girls in England and Wales.

Finlay and Josefine over time

Finlay and Josefine appear together in 1 published list, across 8 years of shared records. Finlay held the stronger position in more years in 1 of them, Josefine in 0.

The order between them changed and held in one of those lists — a change in that published list, never a claim that one name displaced the other.

Counted list by list. Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale in the same year, so those comparisons are real — but positions from different lists are not, so nothing here is combined into an overall standing.

List by list

• England and Wales · Girls8 shared years, 1998–2016

  Finlay held the stronger position in 7 of those years, Josefine in 1.

  Highest recorded here: Finlay #752 in 1999, Josefine #3225 in 1999.

  The order changed in 2016: Josefine moved ahead. In 2015 they stood at #4564 and #5556; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.

  Most recent shared year, 2016: Finlay #5785, Josefine #4096.

Two names moving past each other in a ranking is a fact about the ranking. Namewise does not claim one name displaced the other, that families chose between them, or that either influenced the other — none of that is in this data.

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Comparisons that share a name, a rule or a published list with this one. Each is an existing comparison page with its own evidence — nothing here says these pairs are alike.

Side by side

How each name got here