Finán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Finán is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnáin (“descendant of Fionnán”), a personal name which derives from the diminutive form of fionn (“fair, blond”).
- USUnited States1 in 146K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)
2,276 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Finan in US United States, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnáin (“descendant of Fionnán”), a personal name which derives from the diminutive form of fionn (“fair, blond”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Finán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,276 | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Finan | 7 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | — | Finan | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Finan | 8 |
2,276 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Finán mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnáin (“descendant of Fionnán”), a personal name which derives from the diminutive form of fionn (“fair, blond”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Is Finán a male or female name?
- Finán is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Finán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Finán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finan.
- Where is Finán most common?
- Finán is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 146 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Finán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,276 people named Finán in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fin%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Finán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.