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Finlay

Boy#181 in 20246 lettersPeak 2007
280
Babies in 2024
-54%
10-year change
2007
Peak · 1.34k
-6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 19962024
2.50k1.88k1.25k6250200020052010201520202024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.

About the name Finlay

Finlay peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (1,343 babies in 2007) and has remained in active use — 280 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.

Finlay reached its peak in 2007, when 1,343 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #59 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 280 keeps the name in regular use.

Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 17,879 boys have been officially registered with the name Finlay in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,092 boys were registered with the name, starting from 611 in 2014 and ending at 280 in 2024.

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