Finn Name Meaning & Origin
Finn
Origin of the name Finn:
Popular Anglicized form of the Irish Fionn (fair, white, clear). The name was borne by the legendary Finn MacCool, the father of the famous poet Ossian and the supposed builder of the Giants' Causeway of the Antrium coast. Finn MacCool is the popular subject of many Irish legends and stories, which portray him as both a giant and a man of normal stature. His Gaelic name is Gionn MacCumhal.
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I love Finn for a boy! I think it's very uncommon & original which is awesome!
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My brothers name is Finn and it's lovely. It's simple, but it has a cool sound over it. He also likes his name, but he doesn't like it that people always assume that it's short for something like Finnegan or Finnley.
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Finnegan, Finny, Fish Boy, Finnie
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Finn Jones, actor who plays Ser Loras Tyrell on HBO's Game of Thrones
Finn Scott, son of actor Tom Everett Scott
Finn McDermott, son of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
Finn Burns, son of actor Edward Burns and Christy Turlington
Finn William Leeves Coben, son of actress Jane Leeves
Finn Harries, Youtuber and twin brother of Jack Harries
Finn Ronne, a Norwegian-born U.S. Antarctic explorer
Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor who plays Mike Wheeler on the hit Netflix show
he is the cutest most precious thing on earth, im not lying and fillie is not real Stranger Things
Peter "Finn" Wittrock, Jr., American actor and screenwriter
Finn Buck – American/German writer
Finn Burns (b. 2006), son of American model, charity-founder and campaigner, and filmmaker Christy Turlington and American actor, producer, writer, and director Edward Burns
Finn Warren (b. 2011), son of American actress Autumn Reeser
Finn Davey McDermott (b. 2012), son of American actress, television personality, socialite, and author Tori Spelling and Canadian-American actor Dean McDermott- Finn in song, story & screen: | Edit
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, novel by Mark Twain
Finnegan's Wake, novel by James Joyce
Legendary Irish folklore hero Finn McCool
Finn the Human, character in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time
Finn, character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens played by John Boyega
Finn Colins, character on The 100
Finn, character in The Lego Movie played by Jadon Sand
Finn, Meadow's boyfriend on The Sopranos
Finn Dandridge "McVet" on Grey's Anatomy
Finn Hudson, character on Glee played by Cory Monteith
Finn Whitman, from the Kingdom Keeper series by Ridley Pearson
Finn McMissile from the Pixar franchise Cars
Finn Mikaelson from the CW's The Vampire Diaries
Finn, a villain from Jackie Chan Adventures