Finnley

maleStatistical record

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

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

Finnley: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #268 in 2021, and it stood at #442 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#268highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1999

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #442 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #268 among boys in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #442 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Finnley appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 2,727 births with the name.

Finnley 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.

Finnley'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2337 (1997)	#268 (2021)	#442 (2024)	28 of 28	2,727 (1997–2024)	171 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#415 (2017)	#374 (2021)	#374 (2021)	3 of 5	10 (2017–2021)	4 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#637 (2020)	#498 (2021)	#770 (2023)	3 of 4	13 (2020–2023)	6 (2021)

Finnley by decade in England and Wales · 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 Finnley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	3 of 10	7
2000s	693	10 of 10	69
2010s	1,329	10 of 10	133
2020sbusiest	684	5 of 10	137

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 137 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 49, from 166 to 117.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Finnley 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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #268 in England and Wales in 2021.

Finnley'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#442	91	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#350	121	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#333	130	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#268	171	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#277	171	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#329	139	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#369	123	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#352	135	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#349	135	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#363	122	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#338	133	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#350	117	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#281	166	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#295	149	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#371	110	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#330	120	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#336	115	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#361	101	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#421	79	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#342	92	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#431	64	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#519	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#544	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#881	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1082	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #268, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 171 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 27 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.

Finnian · #192, 44y
Finnick · #1758, 11y
Finola · #149, 49y
Fintan · #85, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Miah · #268, 30y
Devon · #267, 31y
Tillie · #269, 30y
Ella-Mae · #266, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Corran · #268, 19y
Ellie-Rose · #268, 29y
Leigha · #268, 29y
Miah · #268, 30y

Finnley was ranked #268 in England and Wales · Boys in 2021. 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.

Finnley 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 Finnley without appearing here.

Finnley moved ahead of

Isak Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2419 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #881 and #3036.
Kristoffer Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2419 and #1821 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #881 and #3036.
Aria Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1082 and #2943.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1082 and #2943.

Moved ahead of Finnley

Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #350 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #442 and #406.
Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #336 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #330 and #311.

Moved the opposite way to Finnley

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Finnley

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Finnley went from #2337 to #442 and Archie from #141 to #10.

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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #268 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Finnley

Finnley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Finnley across 3 official records

Finnley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Finnley at a glance

Finnley across 3 official records

Finnley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Finnley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Finnley

Finnley and the names beside it

Finnley moved ahead of

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