The FINLAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,880	10258	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	660	7712	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+2220	-2546	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	1,923	852	0.012	118
United Kingdom	5,580	1118	0.012	121

Top States for FINLAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	312	8022	0.001	9
Florida	251	7183	0.002	16
New York	186	9556	0.001	10
Texas	182	9156	0.001	9
Massachusetts	177	4446	0.003	28
Top States for FINLAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	59	3144	0.005	46
Rhode Island	34	4237	0.003	32
Vermont	18	4638	0.003	30
Massachusetts	177	4446	0.003	28
Kansas	59	5200	0.002	22

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FINLAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FINLAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FINLAY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FINLAY by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FINLAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FINLAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FINLAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FINLAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	114	3.96
White (Hispanic)	94	3.26
Mixed Race	32	1.11
Asian/Pacific	12	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.28
White (Caucasian)	2,620	90.97

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FINLAY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FINLAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FINLAY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.