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Finis
How to Pronounce Finis
Pronounced FY-nis /ˈfaɪ.nɪs/Medium
Meaning: Finis is a genuine given name from the Latin finis, 'end, boundary, limit' — the source of English 'finish' and 'final.' It was sometimes bestowed on a couple's last-born child as a gentle marker that the family was complete. The meaning is the plain Latin 'end.'Medium
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Finis comes straight from the Latin finis, 'end' or 'boundary,' the root of 'finish' and 'final.' In the American South especially it was given now and then to a last-born son, a tender joke about closing the family. It reached its modest high around 1922 at close to a hundred boys a year.
Finis faded through the century and had all but disappeared by the two-thousands, though a few boys carried it late. It reads as an unusual, almost literary vintage name of the great-grandfather generation; its plain 'the end' meaning gives it a quiet charm that no other name in its cohort shares.
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What does the name Finis mean?
Finis is from the Latin for 'end, boundary,' the root of 'finish'; it was sometimes given to a family's last child.
How do you pronounce Finis?
It's most often said FY-nis /ˈfaɪ.nɪs/ — two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Finis a boy or girl name?
Finis is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Finis?
Finis was an uncommon vintage name that crested in the early nineteen-twenties and has been rare for generations.