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Finley (and Finlay) are extremely popular for boys in the UK right now. However, I think there is a good chance that Finley will never become very common as a boys' name in the USA but will go right to predominantly female over here if it becomes popular. Most Americans seem to think that -ley is now a feminine suffix on given names. So I suspect that on the western side of the Atlantic, Finn and perhaps Phineas may become popular for boys, and that Americans will see Finley as the feminine form of those names.