Given name
Fintan
“the little fair-haired one”
Fintan is used as a given name. One Irish interpretation is “the little fair-haired one.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “the little fair-haired one.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
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
Fintan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 432
- 432 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,925 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −20%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,925 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 20.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 429 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.
Fintan’s family of names
Fintan has a related form in Finten. Fintan has a related form in Fintin. Fintan has a related form in Finton.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Fintonvariant
- Finntanlikely variant
- Fyntynvariant
- Fyntinvariant
- Fyntunvariant
- Fyntonvariant
- Fyntenvariant
- Fyntanvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Fintan
- Fintan McCarthyIrish rowerborn 1996
- Fintan Monahanbishop of Killaloeborn 1967
- Fintan of RheinauIrish monk803–878
- Fintan GavinIrish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1966)
- Fintan O'TooleAward winning Irish journalistborn 1958
- Fintan WarfieldIrish politicianborn 1992
- Fintan MageeAustralian artist (born 1985)
- Fintan of ClonenaghIrish saint of Leinster525–603
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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