Finian

maleStatistical record

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

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

Finian: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #155, and it stood at #572 in 2022.

3registrars recorded it
71times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#155highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2021

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1765
1997	#2859
1998	#2074
1999	#1850
2000	#1703
2001	#1746
2003	#2470
2004	#3651
2005	#1991
2006	#1892
2007	#1756
2008	#2276
2009	#2318
2010	#2400
2011	#2613
2012	#2721
2013	#4685
2014	#3362
2015	#3908
2016	#3079
2017	#3996
2018	#2259
2019	#4702
2020	#2682
2021	#4789

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 44 of the 59 years from 1964 to 2022.

In 2020: #741 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2682 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #155 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 recorded1964–2022
Highest recorded position: #155 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1964 (recorded 1964–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #572 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2022.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finian appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 44 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 231 births with the name.

Finian 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.

Finian'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	#155 (1964)	#155 (1964)	#572 (2022)	44 of 59	231 (1964–2022)	10 (1964)
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#1703 (2000)	#4789 (2021)	25 of 26	152 (1996–2021)	11 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#375 (2011)	#375 (2011)	#418 (2019)	2 of 9	6 (2011–2019)	3 (2011)

Finian 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 Finian in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	30	5 of 10	6
1970s	45	8 of 10	6
1980s	46	8 of 10	6
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	48	9 of 10	5
2010s	37	8 of 10	5
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Finian 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 2022. Highest recorded position: #155 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Finian'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
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#508	6	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	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#412	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#404	7	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#354	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#382	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#281	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#207	8	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#249	5	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#234	6	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#246	6	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	9	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	5	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#273	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#236	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#209	10	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#219	7	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#291	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	6	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#170	8	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#155	10	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 2022, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #155, first reached in 1964.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 47 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
Finlay · #11, 30y
Finlee · #1327, 21y

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.

Benedict · #155, 51y
Fearghal · #153, 47y
Ruaidhri · #157, 51y
Conn · #150, 44y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Alphonsus · #155, 16y
Ambrose · #155, 46y
Benedict · #155, 51y
Juliette · #155, 55y

Finian was ranked #155 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.

Finian 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 Finian without appearing here.

Finian moved ahead of

Madison Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4685 and #3315 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #4632.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3362 and #4632.
Garry Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4702 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2682 and #3848.
Graeme Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #2870.

Moved ahead of Finian

Ole Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2259 and #3959 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #1745.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2259 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1347.
Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2721 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #2403.

Moved the opposite way to Finian

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 while Alexander went from #116 to #40.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 while Benjamin went from #139 to #81.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 while Conor went from #56 to #13.
Daniel Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 while Daniel went from #19 to #10.

Moved the same way as Finian

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 and Adrian from #65 to #225.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 and Alfred from #134 to #657.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 and Denis from #21 to #178.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Finian went from #155 to #572 and Edward from #18 to #112.

What's not yet available

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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 2022. Highest recorded position: #155 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Finian

Finian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Finian across 3 official records

Finian by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finian appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Finian and the names beside it

Finian moved ahead of

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Finian at a glance

Finian across 3 official records

Finian by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Finian 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 Finian

Finian and the names beside it

Finian moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Finian

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