Finleigh
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- FIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Finleigh is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “fair warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Finleigh mean?
Scottish: spelling of Finley, from Gaelic Fionnlagh
“fair warrior”
Finley comes from Scottish Gaelic Fionnlagh, from fionn 'white, fair' and laoch 'warrior'.
Is Finleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Finleigh is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Finleigh in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 11 boys.
Half of all the boys named Finleigh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2009, 25% of the babies named Finleigh in the UK were girls.
Finleigh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,096 |
| 2012 | 11 | #2,080 |
| 2011 | 8 | #2,503 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,013 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,241 |
| 2008 | 7 | #2,616 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,139 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,386 |
| 2005 | 6 | #2,545 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #2,990 |
| 2002 | 3 | #3,325 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #3,146 |
How popular is Finleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Finleigh, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,416th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 110 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Finleigh than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Finleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,008 girls in the US were given Finleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #333, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.
Finleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,962 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,225 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,720 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,186 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,416 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,949 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,937 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,074 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,269 |
| 2015 | 110 | #1,861 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,967 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,217 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,582 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Nicknames for Finleigh
- Finn 945 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Finleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aiden Kayden Finn Kian Keegan Brayden Brody Brogan Darragh Declan Kody Conlan
Other spellings of Finleigh
More Scottish names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Finleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/finleigh, updated 20 October 2026.