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Help[Opinions] Re: Finley
in reply to a message by Piccadilly
You must be in Europe somewhere? I've only heard it used 3 other times here - one on a very very old man, one on a guy who was 16 when my son was born, and once on a little boy in a playground who was about a year younger. The little boy's mom was surprised as I was that they shared the name!
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I'm in Kentucky too and it might just be my area but it's very popular for boys and girls ages 3-6 or so.
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Wow! That's very interesting. I guess because my son is in 8th grade, I don't hear as much about the little ones.
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Considering it has never made the top 100 in Kentucky for boys- and state data only goes to the top 100- even if it was ranked 103 (just off what's reported) in 2012 and there were 60 Finleys in the state born that year making them 3-4 years old now. That would mean roughly 12.6% of the nation's 476 Finleys were born in Kentucky that year, which seems unlikely without a significant cultural reason specific to Kentucky.
I went on a little statistics dive because it seemed interesting that Finley would be "very popular" in Kentucky but no where else in the country. It seems like "very popular" would be a stretch even if it was significantly more popular in Kentucky than other states.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi
I went on a little statistics dive because it seemed interesting that Finley would be "very popular" in Kentucky but no where else in the country. It seems like "very popular" would be a stretch even if it was significantly more popular in Kentucky than other states.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi
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Thank you! That does seem odd. Of course, maybe my lovely boy has just influenced our whole state. :D
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