Given name
Fionnlagh
“fair-haired”·“hero, champion”
Fionnlagh is a masculine given name from Old Irish. It is used in Scottish Gaelic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fionnlagh is built from elements meaning “fair-haired” and “hero, champion”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fionnlagh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 6 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 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fionnlagh’s family of names
Fionnlagh has an English adaptation in Finlay.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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