For reference on the general 'rise' of the term Final Solution (in English and German), I present here some data from the Google-Ngram archive (which measures how often terms appear in published literature, by year, in all published material Google has scanned in; i.e., an enormous portion of all published material). I compare "Final Solution" in German and English and the more specific phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" (first-ever appearance an internal party memo in early 1942, apparently referring to deportation of Jews if read literally, but now a cornerstone of 'code-word genocide' Holocaust historiography):
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Endlösung (Link)
This term occasionally appears in German, at a low rate, from the early 1920s. Its rate of use was fairly consistent from the mid 1920s to the mid 1940s. What this tells me is that the memorandist who jotted down the term Endlösung in early 1942, its first-ever appearance in NS Regime internal writing, and potentially its coining as refering to the plan to deport the Jews out of German-oriented European territory, was using a then-current turn-of-phrase in German. There is nothing inherently sinister about it. (Here is one instance from the minutes of the Reichstag, 1923. The full text is not accessible but a Reichstag member is apparently using the term positively, to mean compensation to settle a matter for a group of constituents. Other appearances seem mainly technical, dealing with chemistry and engineering.)
There is a brief spike for Endlösung in 1946-1947 (Nuremberg Trial), and then another in the early 1960s during the Eichmann Affair (Abduction [May 1960], Trial [April to December 1961], Execution [mid 1962]). The term roared back in the late 1970s and 1980s, as expected, and reached a high level by the 1990s.
Endlösung der Judenfrage (Link)
The term never appears before 1946. (I note here that the masses of semi-educated Holocaust Believers likely will often believe this term was common in Hitlerian rhetoric from the beginning, probably appearing already in Mein Kampf). Otherwise the same trend appears as with Endlösung. It rises again with the promotion of the Holocaust from the late 1970s, exceeding the peak of the Eichmann or Nuremberg spikes by the 1990s.
"Final Solution" (link) [English]
The same trend as in its German equivalent. Brief spikes in 1946-1947 and the early 1960s. It reaches much higher (comparative) heights, though, than the German Endlösung -- it reaches saturation level, we might say -- by the 1990s, when it appears at 10x its late-1940s usage and more than double its Eichmann Affair usage.
Final Solution to the Jewish (Question) [English] (Link) (Ngram only permits five-word searches)
Curious here is that the phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish [Question]") does not really seem to appear at all before about the late 1970s (first-ever appearance recorded in Ngram Corpus, 1956; often with no appearances at all in mid 1950s to mid 1970s). It emerges in English only following the Eichmann Affair. The critical year in its growth was 1978, when it grew over 5x in one year to reach its highest level ever by far, a rate it was regularly attaining by the 1990s.
