Baby Names
Opinion on Boy Name
Finian Robert. Fin for short.
Finian is an Irish name, although not common in the US. DH and I both have Irish heritage on one side of each of our respective families, although we both also belong to another ethnic group which seems confused by this choice.
DH and I both really love this name - however, we have been getting some flack about it from family ... thoughts?
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i don't care for it, but if you love the name, don't let what your families say change your minds.
this is why we didn't reveal the bean's name to ANYONE until after she was born.?
I love it! In fact if we were having a girl we were going to name her Finlay. I do agree with PPs that the two N's would probably make his life a lot easier in terms of not constantly having to correct people on the spelling of his name.
Very handsome name though. Good choice.
I agree. ?I'm not a fan of naming a baby to just use a nickname. ?Name him Fin if you want to call him Fin. ?They'll always be correcting people about what they should be called.?
However, if you like it then go for it. ?You aren't going to be able to please everyone.
I love it. Although our little boy will probably be Max, if DD was a boy, she would have been Griffin, or Finn. Max's middle name may be Finn.
However, I would spell it with two ns Finnian.
BTW, no one else gets a say in what you name your child. (It's hard enough to have two people agree on a name.)
Samantha Skye - Aug 30, 2006 AND Maxwell Griffin - April 14, 2009
Thanks for the input! We have been going back and forth on the spelling with one 'n' or two, so those comments were very helpful.
Believe me, if there's ever a second baby for us, there is no way I am telling anyone in either of our families what name we're planning on. I have learned my lesson - and shared that lesson with all my other expecting friends :-).
Re: use of nickname - my feelings are that if he wants to go by a full name as an adult, he should have the option to do so. And I don't want anyone to think we're big Mark Twain fans or something by just naming him "Finn".
ITA. I actually don't like truncated names because they can sound good for a child and immature for an adult.
Personally, I like Finn. I married into an Irish family and love Irish names. My DS has one that is far less common and frankly a bit weird to anyone not familiar with Gaelic names, but it's a family name so it has meaning. As a result, I don't really care what anyone thinks of it.
I'm not a fan of it... BUT - I think that it is a cute name!
Thanks! I should also add that we arrived at this name because DH was doing family tree research and found the name Phineas, which we both liked but because of our last name didn't want to use a first name ending in "S". So DH found the variant Finian and here we are.
I didn't realize anyone would think of this as a "trendy" name though ... I don't know any babies/children with any variation of this name. So the responses here have been really interesting for me to read.
Actually, it's not at all incorrect. It can be spelled either way. I.E. the Irish Saint Finian, only 1 "n" (and probably the one of the first "famous" people with this name - since he's from the Middle Ages); and the film "Finian's Rainbow" - also only one "n". I'm kind of a research nerd - I check these things out :-).
I think it should be that it is more common to have it with 2 n's and not 1. As for everyone saying how popular Finn is, I can say that I know 2 other people with Finn's besides us and one is Finnegan, one is Finch and ours is Finlay. It is not as popular as people think.