The official name of the association is in German Verband für das Finnentum e. V. and in French La Ligue Finlandaise.

[2] The founding date was the 100th anniversary of Johan Vilhelm Snellman, a prominent national Finnish philosopher and statesman.

[1] One of the most far-reaching manifestations of the Finnish Alliance’s activities was the mass fennification of family names in 1906–1907.

This was repeated in 1935–1936 with the result of more than 200,000 people changing their family names into Finnish.

It provided the initiatives which led to the creation of the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen kulttuurirahasto), Finland Society (Suomi-Seura, an organization to unite the Finns abroad), and the Family Federation of Finland (Väestöliitto).