Thirty years of Finley
Finley in numbers
Finley has risen from 22 boys in 1996 to 1,733 in 2025, though it is below its peak of 2,613 in 2020. Its biggest three-year fall came between 2020 and 2023, from 2,613 to 1,844. It ranked 704th in 1996, reached 16th in 2020 and ranks 18th now. On average it was given to 141 boys a year in the late 1990s, 1,053 in the 2000s, 2,066 in the 2010s and 2,064 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-8%1,886 to 1,733
- 5 years-34%2,613 to 1,733
- 10 years-12%1,978 to 1,733
- 20 years+65%1,049 to 1,733
- Since 1996×7922 to 1,733
- Total, 1996 to 202544,143boys
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 18 · ONS · 1,886 in 2024
Rank 132 · NRS · 41 in 2024
Rank 185 · NISRA · 26 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | 1,733 | -8% | 1 in 174 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,886 | +2% | 1 in 162 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,844 | -9% | 1 in 164 |
| 2022 | 21 | 2,025 | -11% | 1 in 153 |
| 2021 | 19 | 2,283 | -13% | 1 in 140 |
| 2020 | 16 | 2,613 | +42% | 1 in 120 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,842 | -4% | 1 in 179 |
| 2018 | 30 | 1,926 | -1% | 1 in 175 |
| 2017 | 31 | 1,944 | -4% | 1 in 179 |
| 2016 * | 35 | 2,022 | +2% | 1 in 176 |
| 2015 | 36 | 1,978 | -6% | 1 in 181 |
| 2014 | 36 | 2,115 | -2% | 1 in 169 |
| 2013 | 34 | 2,154 | -4% | 1 in 166 |
| 2012 | 34 | 2,248 | +0% | 1 in 167 |
| 2011 | 34 | 2,245 | +3% | 1 in 165 |
| 2010 | 35 | 2,189 | +15% | 1 in 169 |
| 2009 | 43 | 1,905 | +5% | 1 in 190 |
| 2008 | 43 | 1,808 | +10% | 1 in 201 |
| 2007 | 46 | 1,643 | +32% | 1 in 216 |
| 2006 | 60 | 1,242 | +18% | 1 in 276 |
| 2005 | 64 | 1,049 | +17% | 1 in 315 |
| 2004 | =71 | 899 | +27% | 1 in 365 |
| 2003 | 83 | 710 | +29% | 1 in 448 |
| 2002 | 91 | 550 | +47% | 1 in 556 |
| 2001 | =117 | 374 | +7% | 1 in 814 |
| 2000 | 123 | 351 | +10% | 1 in 882 |
| 1999 | 128 | 320 | +74% | 1 in 998 |
| 1998 | 182 | 184 | +372% | 1 in 1,771 |
| 1997 | =484 | 39 | +77% | 1 in 8,450 |
| 1996 | =704 | 22 | 1 in 15,158 |
* ONS’s boys’ 2016 file repeats the October total as September, so the 2016 births total is about 932 too low and 1 in X for 2016 is slightly too low. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate