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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 930,999 Historical Documents with Finn on Ancestry
- 322,269 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 197,383 Census and Voter Lists
- 36,436 Military Records
- 33,667 Immigration Records
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Number of Finn families
 372 - 742  125 - 371 |
 1 - 124  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Finn families
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274 - 546 92 - 273 |
1 - 91 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Finn families
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30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Finn census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Finn census records
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- All Finn
- 516
- Confederate
- 95
- Union
- 421
from the Civil War Service Records
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