Fines
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: plural of fin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/faɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fines is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 460K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 35K
- NONorway1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
723 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine plural of fin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fines is read(measured from records)
Fines is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English65%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fines in English.
- Spanish18%
plural of fin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.0%
feminine plural of fin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fines 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 | 723 | 1 in 460K | 797 | Fines | 190 |
| PH Philippines | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Fines | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Fines | 63 |
| AR Argentina | 152 | 1 in 299K | 152 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Fines | 3 |
| NO Norway | 118 | 1 in 46K | 118 | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Fines | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Fines | 4 |
723 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fines is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of finar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fīnis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine plural of fi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Clarence Finesb. 1905CACanadian politician (1905-1993)
- Christian Finesb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Trine Berg Finesb. 1962NONorwegian politician
- Frédéric Finesb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Helen Finesb. 1973GBBritish athletics competitor (born 1973)
- Tito el Bambinob. 1981USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican reggaeton singer
- Issak Finesb. 1995AUAustralian rugby union player
- Josh Finesb. 1996GBBritish Virgin Islander footballer
- Eden Finesb. 1997ILIsraeli model
- Kyle FinesCAactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 797 | #31,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 723 | #31,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 702 | #31,235 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 152 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 118 | #13,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Fines come from?
- feminine plural of fin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fines?
- A machine transcription gives /faɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Fines mean?
- In Spanish, plural of fin
- In which country does Fines have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 723 people named Fines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fines.
- How common is the name Fines?
- In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Fines in 2010, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/finesThe 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, “Fines”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.