Short Danish Boy Names
Danish naming combines Scandinavian traditions with shorter forms of international classics. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 8,748#15 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 20,358#2 | Steady | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1947. | 20,818#1 | Steady | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1883. | 291#847 | Down 120 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1900. | 445#628 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 420#658 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 431#646 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 1,143#295 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,639#71 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1882. | 293#841 | Up 303 rank positions in five years | 1948 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1890. | 301#823 | Up 511 rank positions in five years | 1949 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1900. | 36#3,276 | Down 894 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1888. | 1,137#298 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1907. | 698#449 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1912. | 257#917 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 21#4,819 | Down 443 rank positions in five years | 1881 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1925. | 6#11,852 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 2001. | 90#1,789 | Up 1,540 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1956. | 5#12,943 | Down 3,819 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1975 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1912. | 8#9,147 | new | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1955. | 7#10,463 | new | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1953. | —Unranked | — | 1961 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.