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
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 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.
Fynnley in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,219 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,359 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,184 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 17 | #1,563 |
| 2016 | 8 | #2,690 |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 7 | #2,843 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | 13 | #1,850 |
| 2011 | 5 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 5 | #3,478 |
| 2009 | 7 | #2,679 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,212 |
| 2007 | 6 | #2,873 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,292 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,399 |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
Nicknames for Fynnley
- Finn 945 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Fynnley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brody, Finn, Kayden, Cody, Kody, Conan, Caelan, Aiden, Lochlan, Brayden, Logan, Keegan
Other spellings of Fynnley
Names related to Fynnley
More Scottish names
Isla, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Reid, Lachlan, Mackenzie
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.