Short Finnish Boy Names
Finnish names include Finnish-language forms and names shared with neighboring naming traditions. 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 Finnish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,002#184 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 682#457 | Down 137 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 635#478 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 535#557 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1962. | 1,046#325 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1968. | 318#794 | Up 577 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1918. | 14#6,409 | Up 578 rank positions in five years | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1971. | 50#2,638 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1971. | 47#2,743 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1951. | 11#7,569 | Up 1,813 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1942. | 12#6,984 | Down 533 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1981. | 28#3,921 | Up 1,985 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1909. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2006. | 9#8,610 | Down 3,468 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1945. | —Unranked | — | 1974 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2011. | 5#12,200 | Down 5,541 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1912. | 8#9,147 | new | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1992. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1918. | 11#7,357 | new | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2015. | 12#7,078 | Up 2,235 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1917. | 5#12,593 | Down 1,574 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1920 |
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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.