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    The surname Finnie

    A surname, carried by 1,763 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F500

    Finnie: #16,343 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Finnie #16,343, 1,763 people Finnie: #16,343 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Finnie #16,343, 1,763 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Finnie is more common than 89.9% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Finney.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,763 people named Finnie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,125 Americans. That is up 9.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,616.

    #16,343
    rank among US surnames
    1,763
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,400)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,338Sifford1,764175,026
    #16,343Scheffer1,763175,125
    #16,349Mecca1,762175,224

    Who is named Finnie

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    49% of people named Finnie identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Finnie

    Finnie has the Soundex code F500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Finnie come from?
    Variant of Finney.
    How common is the surname Finnie?
    1,763 people in the United States had the surname Finnie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,125 Americans. It ranked 16,343rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Finnie?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Finnie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Finnie getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,616 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,763 in 2010, up 9.1%.