Short Dutch Girl Names
Dutch naming includes compact everyday forms as well as longer formal names. 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 Dutch; in U.S. records from 1886. | 256#991 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 1965 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,781#173 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 12,754#3 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 474#618 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 576#520 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,690#182 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 1922 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 442#651 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 5,831#29 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1933. | 11,078#6 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1904. | 400#704 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,644#47 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1881. | 36#4,027 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1940. | 3,712#62 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,132#275 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,129#136 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 379#731 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1911. | 531#565 | Down 97 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 580#512 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1933. | 1,526#200 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | 247#1,013 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1886 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1949. | 464#629 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Dutch; in U.S. records from 1976. | —Unranked | — | 1992 |
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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.