Finch

A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning finch bird; a type of songbird.

Babies a year
5
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3684
5 babies

Finch by the numbers

In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Finch. In the US, 15 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Finch. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Finanfair-haired or white15 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Finlofair-haired warrior; a form of Finlay4 in England and Wales (2025)

Other names that mean a bird

Like Finch, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
  • Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
  • Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
  • Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
  • Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
  • Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Finch

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