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How popular is the name Findlay?
Births per year, rank history and how many Findlays are alive today.
Findlay (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1758th in 2024 and given to 14 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when 60 babies were given the name, the 526th most popular that year. It has declined since 2007; the 2024 figure is roughly 23% of its peak. Findlay is one spelling of a name also recorded as Findley; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Findlay you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old. Half of all Findlays born in England and Wales are between 13 and 23, and there are at least 930 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Findlay - on average, only one in every 326 such rooms contains a Findlay.
How many babies are named Findlay each year?
Includes all spellings: Findlay, Findley. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Findlay spelling rank?
Where does the Findley spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Findlay most popular?
Findlay peaked in 2007, when 71 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Findlay?
At least 930 people named Findlay in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Findlay?
Most living Findlays are between 13 and 23; the most common age is about 20.
Is Findlay becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak.