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Finnlee

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
FIN-lee
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#5,397 for boys

Finnlee is a name of Scottish origin, meaning “fair warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).

What does Finnlee mean?

Scottish: variant of Finley, from Gaelic Fionnlagh

“fair warrior”

Is Finnlee a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Finnlee has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US.

How popular is Finnlee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,397among boys
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Finnlee, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013.

Half of all the boys named Finnlee in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,460 boys in the US were given Finnlee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #259, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.

In 2022, 30% of the babies named Finnlee in the US were girls.

2013Busiest: 31 in 20222025
Finnlee in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202517#5,397
202414#6,194
202316#5,661
202231#3,615
202119#4,932
202015#5,695
201919#4,947
201820#4,735
201720#4,742
201624#4,198
201514#5,995
201410#7,557
20135#12,129

Nicknames for Finnlee

Names like Finnlee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Finnlee

Names related to Finnlee

More Scottish names

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from 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, “Finnlee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/finnlee, updated 20 October 2026.