Where are all the Finns?

[Londonmummytotwo]

We're considering naming our baby boy Finn. Looking on recent baby name stats, seems there's a lot of Finn/Finleys? But I have yet to meet one (and we know lots of children through my older daughter). Is it very regional?

Scotland is crawling with Fin/Finn/Finley/Finlay/Findlays!!! The variety in spelling would put me off alone. Also, bizarrely, like the name Isla, everyone I know using a Finn variation is English living in Scotland!

But we used to live in London and I taught in an area with very few white British children (I’m talking 1 or 2 per year out of 99 in a cohort) and if there was a white British boy in the cohort they were a Fin/Finn/Finley.

My friend is a Finn. From north of Helsinki. Two others, one spaniel, one German shepherd dog...

Loads in the West Midland too. Theres loads in my kids school (primary) and I know multiple finns who are teens and adults

I know two Finns, one from Helsinki and the other from the north of Finland.

People in Finland call their kids Finn?
Isn't that like people in England calling their kids Eng?
Ireland - Ire?
Greenland- Green?
New Zealand- New Zeal? 😂
OK I'll stop now. Love the name Finn actually.

Finns are all 11 and 12 it was huge when I had my first son!

I Have a 2013 born Finley ( in hindsight wish I had just called him Finn) he's at high school now as everyone calls him Finn. I prefer it but if feels weird if I call him Finn 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

whenever he plays football there's always another Finn/ Finley on the other team ( I'm in west mids )

This is funny as 20 years ago I was pregnant and contractions had just started and DH and I went for a walk ( to get things moving) we had decided on Finn as first name but by the time we walked around the kids play area we realised that it seemed like every other boy was a Finn/Finley so we changed our boys name while in labor so it was very popular in London 20 years ago!

No, the names of the two Finns we know are Mikael and Johannes.

I have one ☝️
im in Chester

He was born 2007, he absolutely suits his name
his middle name is Gabriel

I wonder how someone can ‘suit’ the name Finn? Does he look Finnish?

South East here and there are three Finns in my DD's Y1 class alone!

I’m married to one.

my grandson is a Finn. We are in the Midlands .

Ha ha
no he looks like an Australian surfer😆

And there’s Finlo

I’m in Scotland and know 2 babies born last year called Finn as well as a 24 yr old and 15 yr old Finn.
There are 3 wee boys called Finlay at the local playgroup