Finlay is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Finlay is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Finlay. In the SmartGenius ranking, Finlay is #2,310 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Finlay.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Finlay. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 170 Americans who bear this name. And these 170 men and boys named Finlay live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Finlay lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Finlay and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Finlay relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 171,912 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Finlay.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Finlay is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.
If your name is Finlay and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Finlay, you can simply say:
Fox
Igloo
Nut
Lion
Apple
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Finlay
Finlay
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
I
N
L
A
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
I
N
L
A
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Finlay sounds like this:
