# Finnegan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/finnegan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | “descendant of fionnagán” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Finigan, Finnigan |
| US babies named this | 13,115 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 13,011 / 104 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 211, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 15,609 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,463 |
| 2012 | 7 | 13,973 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,248 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,299 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,375 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,688 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,393 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,351 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,900 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,054 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,645 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,202 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,084 |
| 2025 | 6 | 13,768 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 550 | 480 |
| 2012 | 548 | 489 |
| 2013 | 610 | 459 |
| 2014 | 632 | 464 |
| 2015 | 765 | 405 |
| 2016 | 816 | 393 |
| 2017 | 763 | 410 |
| 2018 | 770 | 412 |
| 2019 | 713 | 431 |
| 2020 | 724 | 409 |
| 2021 | 860 | 378 |
| 2022 | 697 | 446 |
| 2023 | 611 | 491 |
| 2024 | 626 | 494 |
| 2025 | 569 | 526 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,125 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.