Given name
Finbarr
“a fair-haired man”
In English use, Finbarr is a variant of Finbar. One Irish interpretation is “a fair-haired man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Finbarr is a variant of Finbar. One Irish interpretation is “a fair-haired man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Finbarr is a variant of Finbar. An origin associated with Finbar is Irish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Finbarr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 31 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,633 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,633 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 133 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.
Finbarr’s family of names
In Irish usage, Finbarr has a conventional equivalent in the English form Barry. In English usage, Finbarr has a related form in Finbar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Finbarr
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