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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Finlay

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#2,614

down −130 places

2025 births

50

down −5 births

All-time births

1,102

5% of them in 2025

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2015
64 births
Best rank
#2,154
in 2015
First recorded
1918
#3,886 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2013
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
29 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201564#2,154Peak
  2. 201656#2,346
  3. 201756#2,327
  4. 201855#2,399
  5. 202455#2,484

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,154 in 2015 · peak births 64 in 2015

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 84% boys■ 16% girls

1,102 boys · 204 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Finlay has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.