Finny
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Having one or more fins
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fˈɪni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Finny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 479K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 480K
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 479K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Having one or more fins.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Finny 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 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | listed | Finny | 112 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 479K | — | Finny | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 994K | — | Finny | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Finny | 18 |
| PH Philippines | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Finny | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 25 | 1 in 691K | 18 | Finny | 7 |
| IE Ireland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Finny | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- Is Finny a male or female name?
- Finny 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.
- What does the name Finny mean, and where does it come from?
- Having one or more fins. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Finny?
- A machine transcription gives /fˈɪni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Finny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 people named Finny in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finny.
- How common is the name Finny?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Finny, about 1 in 691 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/finnyThe 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, “Finny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.