Finn Family History
Finn Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Finn
‘descendant of Fionn’, a byname meaning ‘white’ or
‘fair-haired’. This name is borne by several families in the west of
Ireland.English: from the Old Norse personal name
Finnr ‘Finn’, used both as a byname and as a short form of
various compound names with this first element.German: ethnic
name for someone from Finland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Finn
Name Distribution of Finn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Finn families
 372 - 742  125 - 371 |
 1 - 124  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Finn families
|
274 - 546 92 - 273 |
1 - 91 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Finn families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Finn census records
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Finn Family Origin
Finn Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Finn
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Finn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Finn census records
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Finn Civil War Service Records
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