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Finnegan

Rank in 2024
#492
Born in 2024
625
Peak year
2021 · #378
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 625 boys were named Finnegan, about 1 in every 2,745.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 860 babies, ranked #378.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1995.
  • 12,441 boys have been named Finnegan since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Finnegan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 12 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,843 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,586 babies, 0.40 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin (“descendant of Fionnagán”). Fionnagán is a given name that descends from Old Irish Finnacán, which is typically anglicised as Finnegan itself.

  • (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Finnegan, CC BY-SA 4.0.