# Fintan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fintan/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 432 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 432 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 677, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 4,874 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,428 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,242 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,436 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,440 |
| 2016 | 26 | 4,028 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,801 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,269 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,203 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,796 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,193 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,956 |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,505 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,416 |
| 2025 | 12 | 6,925 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 944 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,191 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,462 |
| 2014 | 27 | 1,035 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Fintan

- Fintan Monahan, bishop of Killaloe
- Fintan O'Toole, Award winning Irish journalist

## 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.