How popular is Finley?

[DaisyEM]

We would actually use the Scottish spelling (Finlay), but I’m just wondering how popular ‘Finley/Finlay’ is at the moment? I keep hearing it everywhere but generally in slightly older children?

We are due baby boy 2 in April, and I’m really struggling with names! DH, DS1 and I all have fairly uncommon Celtic names, and I’m hoping to find a name that is Celtic/not overly used for DS2, so I’m thinking that might mean Finaly isn’t really an option, if it’s very popular?

Other option is Ruairi, but I’ve been thinking of baby as ‘Finlay’ in my head for a while now, however I feel a bit put off by the fact that I keep coming across other children called Finley locally.

@Seaside31 ahh my family is from the west coast of Scotland 🥰 giving myself away here, but my name ends in a ‘dh’ and I think with that being rather unusual, if I use the dh on Ruairi it’ll be very matchy-matchy 😂

Thanks everyone for your replies so far ☺️ seems a bit mixed on opinions of how popular it is! I think I’ll most likely just choose between Finlay and Ruairi once he’s here, see what suits him best 🥰

2! Both are friends with my DC.

Or Fintan. I've loved that for years.

I have a Findlay, in north Scotland. There are two in his primary. I work in an academy of 850 kids, there are none. He gets called Finn mostly. I did want to call him something much wilder but typical Scottish hubby put his foot down. 😆 I liked Flynn too. He is very well behaved age 11. Id definitely not say there is a correlation between names and behaviour. The most popular names in my school are demi-leigh, Logan,Leighton and Aimee/Amy/even an Aymee

Finlay is a lovely name, I guess it just comes down to if you love it does it really matter if it's popular?
Also the other side is I have an unusual name and as a child/young adult just wanted to be called something "normal"

Have you considered Fintan or Finnian which are less common?

I don't know any. I have two children in school and worked in a school.

Three in ds’s class when he was in primary school. He’s 12.

I have a 25 year old Finley! It was very unusual then, we never met another one when he was at school. He loves his name. And he certainly wasn’t naughty 😝

We have six Finn/Finlay/Finley/Finnans out of twenty-four lads in our son's rugby team. But as you mentioned, they are a bit older.

friend has a Finley don’t like that spelling not sure why, my nephew is Finlay he’s 14 now, generally gets Finn.

I’m a paeds nurse (Scotland) and hardly hear it in the babies I see now it was really popular but loads of Arthur, George, Albert etc Magnus is another not keen on that at all or Rhuari depends how you pronounce it Rory or rooory not keen on that either.