Given name · also Gaelic
Finbar
“a fair-haired man”
Finbar is used as a given name. One Irish interpretation is “a fair-haired man.”
Original IrishFionnbharr
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “a fair-haired man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
Finbar developed from an English adaptation of Gaelic Fionnb(h)arr. The earlier name combines fionn (“white, fair”) and barr (“head”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Finbar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 148
- 148 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 238 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Finbar’s family of names
In Irish usage, Finbar has a conventional equivalent in the English form Barry. Finbar has a related form in Fionn. In English usage, Finbar has a related form in FINBARR.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Finbar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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