FINLEY  

Gender: M
Origin: Irish and Scottish
Meaning: "fair-haired hero"

Popularity in 2008: #818

Scottish royal name (it belonged to Macbeth's father) riding the wave of Finn names. Chris O'Donnell used it for one of his sons, and Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn did a gender switch when they named their daughter Finley.

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