Short Finnish Girl 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 nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1888.

327#833
Down 312 rank positions in five years
1983

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1881.

8,252#9
Up 8 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1915.

418#679
Down 131 rank positions in five years
1985

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1886.

6,012#28
Up 16 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1968.

—Unranked
—
2001

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1985.

14#7,665
Up 8,597 rank positions in five years
1986

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1980.

16#7,016
Up 7,448 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1935.

—Unranked
—
1939

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1907.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2006.

5#14,949
Down 8,869 rank positions in five years
2020

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1899.

—Unranked
—
1954

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1901.

—Unranked
—
1919

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2012.

15#7,437
Up 3,516 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2003.

6#14,612
Down 2,665 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1912.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1908.

6#14,813
Up 2,550 rank positions in five years
1914

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1967.

—Unranked
—
1967

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1997.

—Unranked
—
2016

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1904.

—Unranked
—
1917

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1988.

—Unranked
—
2018

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 1994.

5#16,516
new
1994

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2007.

8#11,061
new
2025

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2002.

—Unranked
—
2004

Recorded in Finnish; in U.S. records from 2002.

—Unranked
—
2002

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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.

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