Meaning & origin
What it means
Finnie is a form of Finney. Finney goes back to Old English finig, meaning “heap.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Finnie is a form of Finney. Finney comes from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Finnie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 25 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 5 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 5 in 1939. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,672 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Finnie’s family of names
In English usage, Finnie as a surname has a related form in FINNEY.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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