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Fynn

Gender
Boy
Say it
FIN
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#1,286 for boys
US rank, 2025
#2,183 for boys

Fynn is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “fair, white”. In 2025 it ranked 1,286th for boys in the UK (23 babies) and 2,183rd for boys in the US (65 babies).

What does Fynn mean?

Irish: spelling of Finn

“fair, white”

Spelling of Finn, from the Irish Fionn, fair.

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

Fynn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 boys in the UK and 65 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Fynn in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,286among boys
Babies in 2025
23about 1 in 13,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 36% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 23 boys in the UK were named Fynn, making it the 1,286th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 661st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 82 boys.

2025 had fewer boys named Fynn than any year since 2000.

Half of all the boys named Fynn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,082 boys in the UK were given Fynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #54, up from #1,286 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,405th in England and Wales and 647th in Scotland.

1996Busiest: 82 in 20082025
Fynn in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202523#1,286
202434#984
202334#986
202247#774
202142#844
202058#661
201937#889
201847#777
201757#687
201672#585
201560#652
201448#737
201355#676
201266#601
201171#554
201070#550
200960#606
200882#485
200762#557
200668#510
200563#499
200466#458
200340#623
200226#791
200125#768
200011#1,308
199916#1,001
199811#1,259
199713#1,111
199611#1,215

How popular is Fynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,183among boys
Babies in 2025
65about 1 in 26,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 31% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 65 boys in the US were named Fynn, making it the 2,183rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,478th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 118 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

2025 had fewer boys named Fynn than any year since 2013.

Half of all the boys named Fynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,803 boys in the US were given Fynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #222, up from #2,183 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 118 in 20222025
Fynn in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202565#2,183
202482#1,921
202382#1,909
2022118#1,523
2021107#1,597
2020115#1,478
2019113#1,507
2018102#1,606
201793#1,695
2016106#1,556
2015107#1,531
201492#1,670
201356#2,277
201254#2,357
201162#2,128
201049#2,510
200942#2,846
200838#3,056
200724#4,125
200623#4,101
200515#5,273
200416#5,002
20039#7,238
200210#6,515
20016#9,236
200014#5,034

Names like Fynn

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

Other spellings of Fynn

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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, “Fynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fynn, updated 20 October 2026.