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Fynnley

Gender
Boy
Say it
FIN-lee
Origin
Scottish
UK rank, 2025
#3,747 for boys

Fynnley is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “fair warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies).

What does Fynnley mean?

Scottish: spelling of Fynley, itself a spelling of Finley

“fair warrior”

Spelling of Finley, from the Scottish Gaelic Fionnlagh.

Meaning borrowed from Fynley.

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

Fynnley is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Fynnley in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,747among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 60,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 7% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Fynnley, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,359th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 17 boys.

Half of all the boys named Fynnley in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,418 boys in the UK were given Fynnley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #16, up from #3,747 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.

2003Busiest: 17 in 20172025
Fynnley in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#3,747
20245#3,772
20234#4,335
20226#3,219
20214#4,188
20209#2,359
20196#3,184
20180–
201717#1,563
20168#2,690
20155#3,527
20147#2,843
20134#4,008
201213#1,850
20115#3,446
20105#3,478
20097#2,679
20089#2,212
20076#2,873
20060–
20057#2,292
20046#2,399
20033#3,593

Nicknames for Fynnley

Names like Fynnley

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

Other spellings of Fynnley

Names related to Fynnley

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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Fynnley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fynnley, updated 20 October 2026.