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Finn
Pronounced /ˈfɪn/
Rank in 2024
#198
Born in 2024
1,791
Peak year
2017 · #167
Origin
Irish, Old Norse
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,791 boys were named Finn, about 1 in every 958.
- It peaked in 2017 with 2,381 babies, ranked #167.
- It first shows up in the records in 1918.
- 33,229 boys have been named Finn since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Finn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 67 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 80 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 194 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,578 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 24,289 babies, 1.12 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English Finnas (“the Sami”) (plural), from Old Norse finnr (“a hunter-gatherer”), from Proto-Germanic *finnaz (which see for more). Possibly originally meaning a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers, particularly the Sami. ==== Noun ==== Finn (plural Finns) A national of Finland. Synonym: Finlander (dated) A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
- A male given name from Old Norse.
- A male given name from Irish.
- Origin
- Irish, Old Norse
- Say it
- /ˈfɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Finn, CC BY-SA 4.0.