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How popular is “Finnegan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Finnegan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Finnegan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Finnegan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Finnegan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Finnegan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Finnegan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Finnegan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 40 0.000010829 40 -100%
2000 86 0.000022752 86 -100%
2001 72 0.000019234 72 -100%
2002 68 0.00001819 68 -100%
2003 142 0.000037346 142 -100%
2004 144 0.000037687 144 -100%
2005 204 0.000053058 204 -100%
2006 264 0.000066731 264 -100%
2007 366 0.000091553 366 -100%
2008 377 0.000095913 377 -100%
2009 489 0.000128005 5 484 -98%
2010 473 0.000127985 6 467 -97%
2011 556 0.000152004 6 550 -98%
2012 555 0.000151749 7 548 -97%
2013 616 0.000168968 6 610 -98%
2014 640 0.000172675 8 632 -98%
2015 765 0.000206706 765 -100%
2016 823 0.00022433 7 816 -98%
2017 768 0.000214753 5 763 -99%
2018 776 0.000220712 6 770 -98%
2019 718 0.000206861 5 713 -99%
2020 729 0.000218226 5 724 -99%
2021 865 0.000255317 5 860 -99%
2022 706 0.000208682 9 697 -97%
2023 624 0.000188452 13 611 -96%
2024 625 0.000187772 625 -100%

Explore other names

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