Finbarr

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Finbarr: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Finbarr: Recorded every year since 1964, its highest recorded position is #70, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
85times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#70highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Finbarr's record

Ranked every year since 1964, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2859
1998	#2419
1999	#2943
2000	#3036
2001	#2587
2002	#2636
2003	#2470
2004	#3009
2005	#3208
2006	#2870
2007	#2435
2008	#4432
2009	#4527
2013	#2954
2014	#3362
2015	#4747
2016	#3478
2020	#4608
2021	#3451
2022	#4001

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 61 of the 62 years from 1964 to 2025.

In 2023: #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #70 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2025
Highest recorded position: #70 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1964 (recorded 1964–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finbarr appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 1,429 births with the name.

Finbarr across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Finbarr's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#70 (1964)	#70 (1964)	#577 (2025)	61 of 62	1,429 (1964–2025)	69 (1971)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#2020 (1996)	#4001 (2022)	21 of 27	88 (1996–2022)	7 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#343 (2013)	#274 (2019)	#395 (2023)	3 of 11	13 (2013–2023)	6 (2019)

Finbarr by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Finbarr in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	343	6 of 10	57
1970s	513	10 of 10	51
1980s	329	10 of 10	33
1990s	121	10 of 10	12
2000s	59	10 of 10	6
2010s	41	9 of 10	5
2020s	23	6 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 57 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1974 and 1975, when recorded births fell by 36, from 63 to 27.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Finbarr appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Finbarr's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#366	10	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#271	12	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	6	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	8	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#229	7	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	16	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	8	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#261	6	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	12	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#235	7	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#162	19	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#159	20	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#166	18	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#129	30	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#145	23	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#123	35	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#140	27	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#122	35	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#130	28	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#134	30	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#127	34	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#116	43	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	44	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#116	44	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#113	46	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#115	43	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#109	48	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#131	27	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#99	63	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#98	61	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	62	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#94	69	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	50	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#86	65	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#83	57	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#92	43	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#82	57	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#75	60	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#70	61	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2025, ranked in 62 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #70, first reached in 1964.

It held a top-100 place in 11 years, 11 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1971.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Findlay · #209, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Adrienne · #74, 63y
Allison · #63, 61y
Diarmuid · #77, 62y
Mikael · #78, 67y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Caitriona · #70, 56y
Cindy · #69, 58y
Katarzyna · #69, 60y
Nuala · #71, 61y

Finbarr was ranked #70 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1964. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Finbarr and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Finbarr without appearing here.

Finbarr moved ahead of

Jade Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4608 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3451 and #4789.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #3478 and #4810.
Graeme Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4527 and #4527 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #4632.
Shannon Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4432 and #4432 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #3822.

Moved ahead of Finbarr

Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1174.
Erin Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2954 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2960.
Hans Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2954 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #1819.
Fredrik Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1505.

Moved the opposite way to Finbarr

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 while Alexander went from #116 to #55.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 while Benjamin went from #139 to #83.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 while Conor went from #56 to #16.
Liam Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 while Liam went from #54 to #7.

Moved the same way as Finbarr

Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 and Alfred from #134 to #286.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 and Denis from #21 to #232.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 and Edward from #18 to #125.
Francis Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finbarr went from #70 to #577 and Francis from #16 to #309.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #70 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Finbarr

Finbarr at a glance

What stands out in Finbarr's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Finbarr across 3 official records

Finbarr by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finbarr appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Finbarr

Finbarr and the names beside it

Finbarr moved ahead of

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Finbarr at a glance

What stands out in Finbarr's record

Finbarr across 3 official records

Finbarr by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finbarr appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Finbarr

Finbarr and the names beside it

Finbarr moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Finbarr

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