Fïnn
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fïnn is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 20,852 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse finnr, from Proto-Germanic *finnaz. Possibly from a word for nomadic people.
- USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 74K
- FIFinland1 in 169K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
20,852 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Finn in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)- Old Norsefinnr(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*finnaz(measured from records)
From Old Norse finnr, from Proto-Germanic *finnaz. Possibly from a word for nomadic people.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fïnn is found
(measured from records)Fïnn 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 | 20,852 | 1 in 16K | 24K | Finn | 105 |
| BR Brazil | 220 | 1 in 962K | 220 | Finn | 44 |
| NO Norway | 74 | 1 in 74K | 16K | — | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 68 | 1 in 669K | 68 | Finn | 32 |
| ES Spain | 66 | 1 in 758K | 99 | Finn | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 41 | 1 in 286K | 41 | Finn | 11 |
| FI Finland | 33 | 1 in 169K | 461 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 163 | — | 9 |
20,852 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; 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 Fïnn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse finnr, from Proto-Germanic *finnaz. Possibly from a word for nomadic people. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Fïnn a male or female name?
- Fïnn 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fïnn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Fïnn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finn. After it come Brazil, Norway, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fïnn most common?
- Fïnn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fïnn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,852 people named Fïnn in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%AFnnThe 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, “Fïnn” — ranked 1407th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.