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The FINN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,218 1624 0.007 75
United States (1880 census) 6,527 931 0.013 131
Change since 1880 +13691 -693 -0.006 -56
Other Countries
Australia 2,055 785 0.013 126
United Kingdom 5,878 1071 0.013 128
Top States for FINN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,984 830 0.010 105
Massachusetts 1,879 394 0.030 296
California 1,815 1735 0.005 54
Illinois 1,271 921 0.010 102
Florida 1,221 1614 0.008 76
Top States for FINN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,879 394 0.030 296
New Hampshire 229 794 0.019 185
Rhode Island 148 971 0.014 141
Connecticut 465 818 0.014 137
Vermont 67 1578 0.011 110

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of FINN

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 FINN 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 FINN 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 FINN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 740 3.66
White (Hispanic) 437 2.16
Mixed Race 198 0.98
Asian/Pacific 103 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 73 0.36
White (Caucasian) 18,665 92.32

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

Meaning of FINN in historical publications

FINN. A native of Finland. A-Sax. plur. Finnas. Fin. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FINN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FINN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FINN

The following words are slight variants of FINN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.