Finnleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Finnleigh is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “fair warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Finnleigh mean?
Scottish: spelling of Finleigh, itself a spelling of Finley, from Gaelic Fionnlagh
“fair warrior”
Finley comes from Scottish Gaelic Fionnlagh, from fionn 'white, fair' and laoch 'warrior'.
Meaning borrowed from Finleigh.
Is Finnleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Finnleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Finnleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Finnleigh, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had fewer girls named Finnleigh than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Finnleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,008 girls in the US were given Finnleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #333, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Finnleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
Nicknames for Finnleigh
- Finn 945 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Finnleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Brynlee, Braelynn, Rynlee, Brynn, Kenley, Briar, Keegan, Kinley, Kashlynn, Eowyn, Rylynn
Other spellings of Finnleigh
More Scottish names
Isla, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Lochlan
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, “Finnleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/finnleigh, updated 20 October 2026.