Fionntan

maleStatistical record

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

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

Fionntan: Recorded since 1982, with a gap of 14 years, it reached #167 in 2002, and it stood at #395 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
42years from first to last
#167highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Fionntan's record

Moved 212 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Trend unknown

among boys in England and Wales · 2003

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#3467

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Northern Ireland in every year from 1997 to 2023.

In 2003: #299 among boys in Northern Ireland, #3467 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1982–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #210 among boys in Northern Ireland in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Northern Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2023
Highest recorded position: #167 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 1997–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2023.
Northern Ireland · Boys

Fionntan by decade in Northern 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 Fionntan in Northern Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	60	10 of 10	6
2010s	50	10 of 10	5
2020s	20	4 of 10	5

Across Northern Ireland · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Northern Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Fionntan 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 1982 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #167 in Northern Ireland in 2002.

Fionntan'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
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#221	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#304	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#342	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#271	6	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#273	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#245	7	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#293	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#207	10	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#209	9	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#341	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#235	5	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#299	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#167	9	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#173	9	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#207	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	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

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

Where Fionntan is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Fionntan, between 1982 and 2023, in 28 of those 42 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1982	1	#330 in 1982
Northern Ireland	1997–2023	27	#167 in 2002
England and Wales	2003	1	#3467 in 2003

Its high point came 21 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1982) than in England and Wales (2003).

No registrar recorded it for 14 years after 1982; it appears again in 1997.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1982 and 2023, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #167, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 21 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.

Fionna · #327, 11y
Fionnan · #211, 34y
Fionnuala · #116, 61y
Fionnula · #218, 15y

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.

Che · #167, 30y
Isac · #167, 30y
Elli · #165, 30y
Marshall · #165, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Ferdinand · #167, 38y
Liana · #166, 34y
Mikolaj · #166, 31y
Barra · #170, 32y

Fionntan was ranked #167 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2002. 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.

Alan#167
Caelan#167
Fergal#167
Hugh#167
Damien#175
Danny#175
Dominic#175
Eamon#175

Fionntan 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fionntan without appearing here.

Fionntan moved ahead of

Barry
In 2021 they stood at #416 and #365 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #221 and #414.
Jakob
In 2021 they stood at #346 and #281 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #221 and #414.
Mohammed
In 2021 they stood at #416 and #255 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #221 and #414.
Steven
In 2021 they stood at #433 and #295 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #221 and #414.

Moved ahead of Fionntan

Blake
In 2002 they stood at #167 and #186 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2003 that had become #299 and #125.
Jonas
In 2016 they stood at #281 and #358 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #415 and #250.
Roman
In 2019 they stood at #274 and #312 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2020 that had become #304 and #139.
Theodore
In 2013 they stood at #271 and #343 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2014 that had become #346 and #184.

Moved the opposite way to Fionntan

Blake
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 while Blake went from #227 to #113.
Caleb
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 while Caleb went from #192 to #20.
Carter
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 while Carter went from #192 to #88.
Charlie
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 while Charlie went from #160 to #5.

Moved the same way as Fionntan

Aaron
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 and Aaron from #11 to #161.
Adam
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 and Adam from #10 to #60.
Adrian
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 and Adrian from #153 to #249.
Alan
Between 1997 and 2023 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Fionntan went from #210 to #395 and Alan from #136 to #348.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 1982 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #167 in Northern Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Fionntan

Fionntan at a glance

What stands out in Fionntan's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fionntan by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

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Fionntan at a glance

What stands out in Fionntan's record

Fionntan by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Fionntan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Fionntan

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