This page shows the Finlay (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Finlay was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Finlay's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Finlay for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Finlay appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 7,267 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2007, when the table records 370 babies given the name, at rank 12 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Finlay for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20252169
202422011
202323110
202223412
20212556
20202479
201920121
201821819
201726212
201625914
201527711
201426715
201325916
201229613
201128119
201030714
200933613
200831018
200737012
200630421
200524628
200424727
200321332
200218240
200116249
200014751
199912161
19988480
199755101
199648108
199551109
199439123
199334129
199244115
199133129
199018160
198918145
198818143
198718139
198614154
198514156
198415148
198311170
198217131
19816227
19808203
197911169
19784271
197713151
19766227
19758196
197412163

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